QUATREFOIL

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QUATREFOIL , in

Gothic

GOTHIC

architecture

ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a
master
- MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English
  form
  - FORM (Lat. forma)
  is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)
-builder)

, the piercing of

tracery

TRACERY

in a window or

balustrade

BALUSTRADE

with small semicircular openings known as " foils "; the intersection of these foils is termed the

cusp

spear
- SPEAR (O. Eng. spere, O. H. Ger. sper, mod. Ger. speer, &c., cf. Lat. sparrs; probably related to " spar, " a beam)
_point_.html">CUSP (Lat. cuspis, a
spear
- SPEAR (O. Eng. spere, O. H. Ger. sper, mod. Ger. speer, &c., cf. Lat. sparrs; probably related to " spar, " a beam)
, point)

.

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