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Trefoil

noun

Any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves. Synonyms: medic, medick.

A plant of the genus Trifolium. Synonym: clover.

An architectural ornament in the form of three arcs arranged in a circle.

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"Trefoil" Quotes from Famous Books

... will also send a drawing of the Badge, with the wreath of trefoil drawn in single leaves, instead of the full wreath, which looks, as he says truly, like a civic crown or oak garland. But this you will see in the drawing, ...

— Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of George the Third - From the Original Family Documents, Volume 1 (of 2) • The Duke of Buckingham and Chandos

... plur. of Shurrafahcrenelles or battlements; mostly trefoil-shaped; remparts coquets ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 4 • Richard F. Burton

... compound similar to the deposit with which a restaurant-keeper gives an air of cellar-bound antiquity to a merely middle-aged bottle, only served to heighten the general resemblance to a prison door; a resemblance further heightened by the trefoil-shaped iron-work, the formidable hinges, the clumsy nail-heads. A miser, or a pamphleteer at strife with the world at large, must surely have invented these fortifications. A leaden sink, which received the waste water of the household, contributed its quota to the fetid atmosphere of the ...

— Cousin Pons • Honore de Balzac

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