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fylfot

/fil-fot/US // ˈfɪl fɒt //UK // (ˈfaɪlfɒt) //

Fylfot

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a swastika.

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Examples

  • Both the Greek fret and the fylfot appear to have been unknown to the Semitic nations as an ornament or as a symbol.

  • The gallows from which he is suspended forms a Tau cross, while the figure—from the position of the legs—forms a fylfot cross.

  • Why, the symbol of Buddha on the reverse of a coin found at Ugain is the same cross, the 'fylfot' of Thor.

  • The fylfot is frequently found in the Greek Church on the vestments of the clergy.

  • There can be no doubt that the fylfot throughout Eur-Asia had a symbolic significance, which in many places it still retains.