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