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Cinquefoil   Listen
noun
Cinquefoil  n.  
1.
(Bot.) The name of several different species of the genus Potentilla; also called five-finger, because of the resemblance of its leaves to the fingers of the hand.
2.
(Arch.) An ornamental foliation having five points or cups, used in windows, panels, etc.
Marsh cinquefoil, the Potentilla palustris, a plant with purple flowers which grows in fresh-water marshes.





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"Cinquefoil" Quotes from Famous Books



... century the church was extended westward by the erection of three bays and the west front with its three tall lancets and the small cinquefoil window above the central one, all inclosed within a pointed comprising arch. This work was done during the time when Henry III was king; there are records of several gifts to the abbey of timber by him from the royal forest. This was no doubt used in constructing the roof ...
— Bell's Cathedrals: A Short Account of Romsey Abbey • Thomas Perkins
... circle flanked by sunk panels and quatrefoils. The windows in the gable consist of two lesser windows, two-light, with quatrefoil heads, beneath a large octofoil, the whole grouped with blank panels at the side, beneath a cinquefoil moulding. The aisle has flying buttresses reaching to the clerestory, and good angle-pinnacles. The choir transept has no dividing buttresses, and a different grouping of windows. In the lower stage is a triple lancet; there is a group of three two-light windows ...
— Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury - A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the See of Sarum • Gleeson White
... The windows in each aisle are, for the most part, circular, and each is decorated occasionally with Norman capitals and groinings."[8] The aisles, on each side, are much lower than the body of the nave, and in the north aisle is a cinquefoil arch, with Gothic canopy and crockets, resting on short columns of Purbeck stone, over an elegant altar tomb. A modern inscription assigns it to "Petrus ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 20, - Issue 570, October 13, 1832 • Various


Words linked to "Cinquefoil" :   goose-tansy, bush, carving, Potentilla anserina, silverweed, genus Potentilla


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