Wednesday, April 12, 2006

ARCHIPEDIA - Q is for....


QUATREFOIL - a geometric shape often used in Gothic buildings in tracery and stylistic expression of battlements etc. Foil derives from the French word for leaf. Here as in this C13th Early English window St Mary Magdalene Woodstock, UK.

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