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- noun Plural form of
quatrefoil .
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Examples
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Soon, other trunkmakers began copying Louis Vuitton's successful design, pushing the company to launch in 1896 its now iconic monogrammed canvas with the graphic symbols of quatrefoils and flowers.
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It looked like a cartoon, so I just accepted its whimsy after all, quatrefoils are good enough for Disney, but quickly decided it could be improved through some transformative felting.
Archive 2008-09-01 Unionpearl 2008
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Stained glass of Sainte ChapelleThe preference in Gothic architecture for quatrefoils has produced a legacy of four-leaved ornaments that enriches architecture of the Late Middle Ages.
A to Z: Q is for Quatrefoil Unionpearl 2008
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On its tower right, alongside human-sized grotesques in the galerie des chimères, Viollet-le-Duc built a retaining wall of open quatrefoils in the mid-nineteenth century.
A to Z: Q is for Quatrefoil Unionpearl 2008
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It looked like a cartoon, so I just accepted its whimsy after all, quatrefoils are good enough for Disney, but quickly decided it could be improved through some transformative felting.
A to Z: Q is for Quatrefoil Unionpearl 2008
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Sainte Chapelle QuatrefoilsI tend to associate quatrefoils with architecture, and certainly that is their best-known application, but they do also appear in other forms of ornamentation, including in manuscripts.
Archive 2008-09-01 Unionpearl 2008
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Often, quatrefoils enclose stained glass, but the four-leaved plant motif can also appear as part of the stained glass itself.
Archive 2008-09-01 Unionpearl 2008
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Stained glass of Sainte ChapelleThe preference in Gothic architecture for quatrefoils has produced a legacy of four-leaved ornaments that enriches architecture of the Late Middle Ages.
Archive 2008-09-01 Unionpearl 2008
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On its tower right, alongside human-sized grotesques in the galerie des chimères, Viollet-le-Duc built a retaining wall of open quatrefoils in the mid-nineteenth century.
Archive 2008-09-01 Unionpearl 2008
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Sainte Chapelle QuatrefoilsI tend to associate quatrefoils with architecture, and certainly that is their best-known application, but they do also appear in other forms of ornamentation, including in manuscripts.
A to Z: Q is for Quatrefoil Unionpearl 2008
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