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Quatrefoil

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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.


Bibliography Information
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Quatrefoil'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​q/quatrefoil.html. 1910.