noun
- decorative designs or architectural elements having four lobes or leaves, typically arranged symmetrically around a center
Usage: architecture; decorative arts
Examples
- The Gothic cathedral featured beautiful quatrefoils carved into the stone tracery.
- Medieval manuscripts often displayed quatrefoils as decorative borders.
- The architect incorporated quatrefoils into the window design.
- Stone quatrefoils adorned the exterior walls of the abbey.
- The metalwork gate was decorated with intricate quatrefoils.
- Quatrefoils appeared frequently in thirteenth-century church architecture.