- present tense form of recoil (3rd person singular).
recoils
Example Sentences
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“Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York,” which opens on Tuesday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, shows how he experimented with Biedermeier and Rococo curves, Egyptian lotus patterns and Gothic trefoils and pointed arches.
From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2011
Palaces and churches are evoked with pointed arches and ogees, bunches of colonettes, carvings of flowers and fruit, trefoils and quatrefoils.
From The Guardian • Feb. 13, 2011
The lower half of the shield is red, the trefoils silver.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the west wall of the tower is a three-light window, with two trefoils and a quatrefoil above.
From A History of Horncastle from the earliest period to the present time by Walter, James Conway
The trefoils form large hanging cusps in front of the complicated inner arch.
From Portuguese Architecture by Watson, Walter Crum
