cinquefoil

Example Sentences

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The walls were of the colour of claret and were adorned with golden cinquefoils regularly placed.

From Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship by Cabell, James Branch

Each side, moreover, had a tall pointed window, filled with stained glass, and was richly adorned with trefoils and cinquefoils.

From Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire by Ainsworth, William Harrison

The arms of Bardolf are—Az., three cinquefoils or.

From The Handbook to English Heraldry by Utting, R. B.

XIX., and fill their squares and oblong openings with quatrefoils and cinquefoils, and you will immediately have what will stand, with most people, for very satisfactory Gothic.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), by Ruskin, John

It is composed of white stone with open panels, pierced by cinquefoils and quatrefoils, while the apex of each panel terminates in a foliated finial.

From Our Homeland Churches and How to Study Them by Heath, Sidney