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Trefoil

noun
1.
Any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves.  Synonyms: medic, medick.
2.
A plant of the genus Trifolium.  Synonym: clover.
3.
An architectural ornament in the form of three arcs arranged in a circle.



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"Trefoil" Quotes from Famous Books



... figure at the side, the eye will instantly prefer the semicircle to the straight line; the trefoil (composed of three semicircles) to the triangle; and the cinqfoil to the pentagon. The mathematician may perhaps feel an opposite preference; but he must be conscious that he does so under the influence of feelings quite different from those with which he would admire (if he ever does ...
— Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) • John Ruskin
... or "trefle" (like trefoil), the "cross patonce" (like the paw of the ounce, or panther), and the "cross flory" (like the fleur-de-lis), all with limbs ending in threefold figures, have evident reference ...
— The Worship of the Church - and The Beauty of Holiness • Jacob A. Regester
... elegance, what richness of open-work tracery this encroachment of the ivy throws upon the rather gaunt and sharp gable-end of the building, which on this front has for ornament but four narrow-pointed windows, surmounted by three trefoil quadrilobes. ...
— The Cross of Berny • Emile de Girardin
... been fed on fresh trefoil, was killed and opened immediately,—that is, before the process of rumination had commenced. He (M. Flourens) found the greatest part of this herb (easily recognised by its leaves, which were still almost entire,) in the ...
— Delineations of the Ox Tribe • George Vasey
... feed almost on every kind of trees, Young firs, the ilex, and the oak we crop: Sweet trefoil fragrant juniper, and yew, Wild olives, thyme,—all freely yield ...
— Essays and Miscellanies - The Complete Works Volume 3 • Plutarch


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