cinquefoiled

adj

Etymology

From cinquefoil + -ed.

Definitions

  1. Having five lobes or having the shape of a cinquefoil.

    • The nave has, on the north side, one single trefoiled window, and another of two lights cinquefoiled. The south side has a window of two lights cinquefoiled, and another of two lights trefoiled.
    • Edingthorpe, Norfolk. — A window with two ogee-headed lights, both cinquefoiled, supporting a centrepiece pointed above and ogee below. In it is inscribed a quatrefoil with double foliation.
    • The E. wall is continued to form the end wall of the N. range and contains the E. window of the old Chapel under a gable flanked, on the N., by a square turret with stone quoins and one and two-light windows with cinquefoiled openings ...

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA