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Definition of Trefoil arch
1. Noun. A pointed arch having cusps in the intrados on either side of the apex.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trefoil Arch
Literary usage of Trefoil arch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The North Americans of Antiquity: Their Origin, Migrations, and Type of by John Thomas Short (1879)
"Analogies, Real and Fancied—MAYA ARCHITECTURE—The American Pyramid —The Palace
of Palenque—The French Roof at Palenque—The trefoil arch— ..."
2. An Essay on the Origin and Development of Window Tracery in England: With by Edward Augustus Freeman (1851)
"The Nave Aisles of Peterborough Cathedral are lighted by large segmental headed
windows of five lights, each with a trefoil arch supporting a trefoil; ..."
3. English Architecture by Thomas Dinham Atkinson (1904)
"The trefoil arch had been used by the Normans, and now becomes common. The whole
FIG. 41. trefoil arch, WESTMINSTER. c. 1250 arch follows the trefoil form ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1837)
"The trefoil arch, of Byzantine growth, in its native soil was an universal
favorite, and in the mosques which succeeded the structures of the Greek empire, ..."
5. The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical by John Britton, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees, Thomas Hood, John Harris, Edward Wedlake Brayley (1805)
"bert, towards the south: under the feet of each a quatrefoil was sculptured over
a trefoil arch; and long and slender shafts, supporting cinquefoil arches, ..."
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