Quatrefoil
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QUATREFOIL, in Gothic architecture, the piercing of tracery in a window or balustrade with small semicircular openings known as "foils"; the intersection of these foils is termed the cusp.
Quatrefoils are not the same as shamrocks, though they do have four leaves; the leaves of a quatrefoil are more circular and they appear without the stem of a trefoil, except for very rarely.
Quatrefoil
A leaf ornament found generally in tracery composed of four foils or leaves arranged around a common center. Trefoils are most commonly found in Gothic designs.
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Quatrefoil Window
Illustrated definition of the term Quatrefoil window from our Architecture Glossary.
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quatrefoil
An ornamental form which has four lobes or foils. It may resemble a four-petaled flower. Compare with cinqfoil, trefoil
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quatrefoil - four-leafed Gothic design found in tracery.
sawn scroll work- when the scroll saw was invented many decorative features for homes were made for vergeboards, brackets, tympanums.
Quatrefoil - An architectural ornament having four lobes or foils.
Rayonnant - A thirteenth-century slender radiant style from the court of Louis IX.
Ribbing - Arches used to support the vault.
QUATREFOIL
Ornamental tracery in the from of a flower with four symmetrical petals
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Quatrefoil - Four-lobed motif; usually in block shape.
Quoin - A structural form, usually of masonry, used at the corners of a building for the purpose of reinforcement, frequently imitated for decorative purposes.
quatrefoil A decorative form characterized by four lobes.
quoins The dressed stones at the corners of buildings, usually laid so their faces are alternately large and small.
quatrefoil : A quatrefoil window is a round window which is composed of four equal lobes, like a four-petaled flower. The quatrefoil pattern is common in Moorish and gothic architecture.
Quatrefoil
an ornamental "four-leaf clover" shape -i.e., with four lobes radiating from a common center.
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Quatrefoil
An form that has four lobes or foils, resembling a four-petaled flower. In architecture, a quatrefoil plan is a four lobed structure in which the walls represent four leaves or petals with a dome on top.
Quatrefoil
A pattern used in masonry and wood, similar to the shape of a four-leafed clover, comprising of four curves joined together. Often featured as part of window tracery.
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Quatrefoil - Four symmetrical (or circular) leaf shapes inscribed within a circle. (Also trefoil - three shapes; and multi-foil).
Queen Anne - (Refer: Edwardian).
Barbed quatrefoil - a four-lobed geometrical motif with a triangular projection at the intersection of two adjacent foils.
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Quatrefoil keep: A shell keep which was usually situated on an artificial motte and consisted of four overlapping circular bastions.
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The main feature of the design was the quatrefoil arrangement of domes based on the use of a single central dome flanked by four semi-domes, one on each side.
Sometimes these windows are very small, being mere quatrefoils or spherical triangles. In large buildings, however, they are important objects, both for beauty and utility.
Trefoil (three), quatrefoil (four), cinquefoil (five), sexfoil (six) and multifoil express the number of lobes in a shape.FoliateDecorated with leaves.
FOIL In Gothic window tracery, the small arc openings separated by cusps. The number of foils is described as trefoil (3), quatrefoil (4), and cinquefoil (5).
FRENCH WINDOW A window that opens to the floor in two hinged parts.
Socles: Architectural term referring to the lower panels of a portal, often located under the jamb figures. The reliefs were often quatrefoil, and typically portrayed such pagan themes as the Signs of the Zodiac and the Virtues and Vices (fig.
cusp: projection on the underside of an arch, especially in Gothic architecture; three cusps form a trefoil, four a quatrefoil, and so on.
 See also: Trefoil, Architecture, Gothic, Church, Arch
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