double quatrefoil

noun

Heraldry.

a charge having the form of a foil with eight leaves, used especially as the cadency mark of a ninth son.

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All these four examples belonging to the oblique or Northern system, the curious trefoil plan, 3, lies between the two, as the double quatrefoil next it unites the two.