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QUATREFOIL

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 724 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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QUATREFOIL , in See also:

GOTHIC

Gothic See also:

ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

architecture, the piercing of See also:

TRACERY

tracery in a window or See also:

BALUSTRADE

balustrade with small semicircular openings known as " foils "; the intersection of these foils is termed the See also:

CUSP (Lat. cuspis, a spear, point)

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