trefoil arch
Americannoun
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The large semi-circular bay with a trefoil arch was pierced in 1895, when the tower was rebuilt.
From Romanesque Art in Southern Manche: Album by Lebert, Marie
This large twin bay with a trefoil arch replaced in 1860 a rectangular opening, that replaced itself a small Romanesque bay in 1790.
From Romanesque Art in Southern Manche: Album by Lebert, Marie
A "trefoil arch" connects the 113six chief pillars, on each of which stands a statue of a Virtue.
From Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition by Hutton, Edward
The arch over it is a moulded trefoil arch, surmounted by a plain canopy of very simple and formal design.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire by Massé, H. J. L. J. (Henri Jean Louis Joseph)
Across these five upright divisions and in a straight line is thrown a great flattened trefoil arch joined to the back with Gothic vaulting.
From Portuguese Architecture by Watson, Walter Crum
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