quatrefoil

/kat-er-foil, ka-truh-/US // ˈkæt ərˌfɔɪl, ˈkæ trə- //UK // (ˈkætrəˌfɔɪl) //

四叶草,四翼,四翼鸟,四叶片

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a leaf composed of four leaflets.
- : Architecture. a panellike ornament composed of four lobes, divided by cusps, radiating from a common center.

On the ground-floor, which was lighted by a row of quatrefoil windows in pointed arches, there were forty-eight rectangular doors.
On the south, however, the quatrefoil decoration is slightly different.
The mullions, or radii, are all faced with small pillars and capitals, and lined with the dog-toothed quatrefoil.
Above this is an open gallery with very beautiful twisted pillars and quatrefoil piercing in the three arches.
The windows in the chapels of the chevet are of two lights, with a small quatrefoil pierced in the tympanum above the lights.