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  • noun Plural form of trefoil.

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Examples

  • a string course of stemmated trefoils, which is continued round the front, the transepts, and the base of the north-west tower, together with the more modern base towards the south.

    The New Guide to Peterborough Cathedral George S. Phillips

  • A field with a standing crop of wheat had a wide wild-flower margin with ox-eye daisies, red clover, sainfoin, poppies and trefoils – to name a few – and I was disappointed not to see a single butterfly, perhaps because it was overcast.

    Country diary: East Yorkshire 2011

  • In these hot June days, meadow brown and ringlet butterflies, together with six-spot burnet moths, bumblebees and solitary bees and hoverflies, visit the pea family plants of bird's-foot trefoils, melilots, medicks, vetches and clovers.

    Country diary: Wenlock Edge 2010

  • Three is also found as a foundation element in beliefs from around the world, from different times and ways of thought, and it is respresented by myriad symbols: triskeles, triskelions, trefoils, triquetra, tomoye, and more.

    Archive 2007-04-01 kittenpie 2007

  • Three is also found as a foundation element in beliefs from around the world, from different times and ways of thought, and it is respresented by myriad symbols: triskeles, triskelions, trefoils, triquetra, tomoye, and more.

    The Shape of Three kittenpie 2007

  • Upon this door, beside a pretty Gothic lock-plate, there is an iron handle with trefoils placed slanting.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • Arrowheads, trefoils, diamonds, and squaresship markers were scattered far and wide across his map.

    Reap the Whirlwind David Mack 2007

  • Slightly greater in number were the trefoils representing Klingon warships.

    Reap the Whirlwind David Mack 2007

  • Arrowheads, trefoils, diamonds, and squaresship markers were scattered far and wide across his map.

    Reap the Whirlwind David Mack 2007

  • Slightly greater in number were the trefoils representing Klingon warships.

    Reap the Whirlwind David Mack 2007

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