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Trefoil

noun

Any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves. Synonyms: medic, medick.

A plant of the genus Trifolium. Synonym: clover.

An architectural ornament in the form of three arcs arranged in a circle.

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"Trefoil" Quotes from Famous Books

... the former. Under the sweet galvanism of her stroking hand the rabbit was presently so much better that when she offered him a blade of the neglected clover, the equilateral triangle of his queer mouth was immediately set in motion, the trefoil vanished, and when he was once more placed in the crib he went on with his meal as if nothing had happened. The children were in ecstasies, and cousin Dorothy was from that moment popular and on the ...

— St. George and St. Michael • George MacDonald

... handkerchief to prevent myself from yielding to the temptation. The weird noise of my stifled sobs attracted the attention of some one who was praying in the little chapel on the other side of the wall which I had chanced to lean against. A Gothic window, with its stone mullions surmounted by a trefoil, was exactly on a ...

— Mauprat • George Sand

... Korans: the Koran is the sacred book of the Mohammedans.] carved in arabesques and bearing Solomon's seal; old necklaces of gold sequins, defaced by wear on the necks of women long since dead; and quantities of those large trefoils [Footnote: Trefoil: a shape similar to that of the clover leaf.] in hammered silver, enclosing a green stone, which are hung about the neck to avert the bad effect of the evil-eye. These things are all spread out on little dirty worm-eaten tables, in front of the squatting merchants, ...

— Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools • Emilie Kip Baker

... juice of rue, And trefoil too; In marrow of bear And blood of Trold, Be cool'd the spear, Three times cool'd, When not from blazes Which Nastroud raises ...

— The Death of Balder • Johannes Ewald

... '"O trefoil, sparkling on the rainy plain, O rainbow with three colours after rain, Shine sweetly: thrice my love hath ...

— Idylls of the King • Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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