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- adjective Of a plant, having four leaves.
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Examples
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Stained glass of Sainte ChapelleThe preference in Gothic architecture for quatrefoils has produced a legacy of four-leaved ornaments that enriches architecture of the Late Middle Ages.
Archive 2008-09-01 Unionpearl 2008
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Often, quatrefoils enclose stained glass, but the four-leaved plant motif can also appear as part of the stained glass itself.
A to Z: Q is for Quatrefoil Unionpearl 2008
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Often, quatrefoils enclose stained glass, but the four-leaved plant motif can also appear as part of the stained glass itself.
Archive 2008-09-01 Unionpearl 2008
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Stained glass of Sainte ChapelleThe preference in Gothic architecture for quatrefoils has produced a legacy of four-leaved ornaments that enriches architecture of the Late Middle Ages.
A to Z: Q is for Quatrefoil Unionpearl 2008
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It was rather as if he were thanking a stranger in a smoking-room for some trouble in passing the matches, than as if he were (as he was) practically thanking the Curator of Kew Gardens for coming with him into a field to find a four-leaved clover.
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It was rather as if he were thanking a stranger in a smoking-room for some trouble in passing the matches, than as if he were (as he was) practically thanking the Curator of Kew Gardens for coming with him into a field to find a four-leaved clover.
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Mother had gone back to her writing, and several sheets of pink paper with scalloped gilt edges and green four-leaved shamrocks in the corner were spoiled before the three had decided what to say.
The Railway Children Edith 2003
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Mother had gone back to her writing, and several sheets of pink paper with scalloped gilt edges and green four-leaved shamrocks in the corner were spoiled before the three had decided what to say.
The Railway Children Edith 2003
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At a signal from the princess the prince poured the water in the hole, and the moment it reached the brim the princess flung in the four-leaved plant.
The Brown Fairy Book 2003
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But a girl was present who had just found a bit of four-leaved clover, and had thus become so wise that no deception could stand out against her, and she saw that the beam was nothing but a straw.
Household Tales 2003
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