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fylfot
noun as in swastika
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Example Sentences
Both the Greek fret and the fylfot appear to have been unknown to the Semitic nations as an ornament or as a symbol.
The gallows from which he is suspended forms a Tau cross, while the figure—from the position of the legs—forms a fylfot cross.
Why, the symbol of Buddha on the reverse of a coin found at Ugain is the same cross, the 'fylfot' of Thor.
The fylfot is frequently found in the Greek Church on the vestments of the clergy.
There can be no doubt that the fylfot throughout Eur-Asia had a symbolic significance, which in many places it still retains.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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