cinquefoil
cinquefoil
Definition
cinque·foil (siŋk′fo̵il′)
noun
- any of a genus (Potentilla) of plants of the rose family, with white, yellow, or red flowers and fruit like a dry strawberry: some species have compound leaves with five leaflets arranged like the fingers on a hand
- Archit. a circular design made up of five converging arcs
Etymology: ME cink foil < OFr cinquefoil < It cinquefoglie < L quinquefolium < quinque, five + folium, leaf: see foliate
cinquefoil
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- include: High up in Wharfedale the scars and screes support a range of plants including the nationally scarce alpine cinquefoil and hoary whitlowgrass.
- creep: Creeping cinquefoil Potentilla reptans Creeping Thistle Cirsium arvense Dewberry Rubus caesius Dog Rose Rosa canina Downy Rose Rosa mollis agg.
Adjective modifier
- alpine: High up in Wharfedale the scars and screes support a range of plants including the nationally scarce alpine cinquefoil and hoary whitlowgrass.
- central: West wall: two-centred arch to the window with three cusped, two-centred lights and a central cinquefoil above.
Modifies a noun
- tracery: Windows with two-centred arches containing three lights with cinquefoil tracery.
- head: All four sides are slate hung with vertical planking on either side of double louvered windows with cinquefoil heads, all in wood.
- cusping: Over it is a sixteenth-century square-headed window, with two wide lights, to which cinquefoil cusping in Bath stone has been added.
- light: Two windows in south wall of three cinquefoil lights with vertical tracery.
Noun used with modifier
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