trefoiled
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a word derived from
trefoil.
trefoilnounany of numerous plants belonging to the genus Trifolium, of the legume family, having usually digitate leaves of three leaflets and reddish, purple, yellow, or white flower heads, comprising the common clovers.
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The lower arcades are semicircular, the upper, trefoiled, while the intermediate shafts are broken by two band-courses.
From Cathedrals of Spain by John A.
Triforium arches and arcades open with trefoiled heads.
From Architecture Gothic and Renaissance by T. Roger (Thomas Roger) Smith
The great piers of the transept are trefoiled in section.
From Cathedrals of Spain by John A.
On the front are Christ, the Virgin, and S. John in relief, with a frieze of a hunting subject, the figures beneath trefoiled arches on twisted columns; on the back, SS.
From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson
In the first three western bays in both aisles the large arcading, with its plain trefoiled arches, is clearly Early English.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Lichfield A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See by A. B. Clifton