Cinquefoiled

Quick meaning: Cinquefoiled is an adjective meaning Having five lobes or having the shape of a cinquefoil.

Meaning

Having five lobes or having the shape of a cinquefoil.

Example Sentences

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 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.

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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