quinquefoil

[ kwing-kwuh-foil, kwin- ]

noun

1. cinquefoil ( def 2 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of quinquefoil¹

1610–20; quinque- + -foil (as in trefoil )

Example Sentences

The design is composed of sprays formed of two rolls of scrolls, welded to a central stem, like a much-curled ostrich feather, with lesser scrolls in the interstices and the major scrolls, each terminating in an open-work trefoil, or quinquefoil.

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