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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 238 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TREFOIL (
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Lat. trif olium, three-leaved plant, Fr. trk/le, Ger. Dreiblatt and Dreiblattbogen) , the
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term in
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Gothic
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architecture given to the ornamental foliation or cusping introduced in the heads of window-
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lights,
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tracery, panellings, &c., in which the centre takes the
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form of a three-lobed
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leaf, one of the earliest examples being in the
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plate tracery at
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Winchester (1222–1235); see
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QUATREFOIL .

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