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单词 cinquefoil
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cinquefoilcinqfoiln.adj.

Brit. /ˈsɪŋkfɔɪl/, U.S. /ˈsɪŋkˌfɔɪl/, /ˈsæŋkˌfɔɪl/
Forms: Middle English sinkfoil, ( quynfole, qwynfoile), Middle English–1500s synkfoil(e, 1500s cinkfoly, cinkfolie, cinfoly, cinkfoile, ( cinkefield), cinqfile, cinquefole, ( cintfoyle), sinke-, synke-, sinckefoyle, synckfoly, quinfoil, 1500s–1600s cinkefoile, cinquefoile, cinquefoyle, 1600s cinkfoil, sinkefoile, ( sinkfield), 1600s–1800s cinqfoil, 1600s– cinquefoil.
Etymology: < Old French type *cinkfoil, modern French quintefeuille (quintefoil in Alphita, 15th cent.), corresponding to Latin quinquefolium, < quinque five + folium leaf.
A. n.
1.
a. The plant Potentilla reptans (family Rosaceæ), with compound leaves each of five leaflets. Also used of other species with similar leaves, and as a book-name for the whole genus.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > rosaceous plants > [noun] > potentilla or cinquefoil
quinquefoileOE
five-leafc1000
goose-grassa1400
camorochec1440
five-leaved grass1526
tansyc1530
cinquefoil1538
potentilla1548
five-fingered grass1562
agrimony1578
silverweed1578
goose-tansy1597
silver grass1600
silverwort1611
five-finger-grass1640
midsummer silvera1697
strawberry cinquefoil1753
Scotch cinquefoil1789
goose-weed1865
five-finger1866
fair days1884
fair-grass1884
potentil1884
1538 W. Turner Libellus de re Herbaria at Qvinqve folivm Synckfoly.
1540 R. Jonas tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde i. f. xxxvii Take of cinkefoyle, the leues & rotes.
1562 W. Turner Herball (1568) ii. 110 b Quinquefolium is named in English Cinkfoly, or fyvefyngred grasse, or herb fyvelefe.
1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 41v Necessarie herbes to growe in the garden for Phisick..Cinqfile.
1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Quintefueille..an Hearbe called Cinkefield.
1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. D There growes the cintfoyle, and the hyacinth.
1595 Bk. of Armorie 53 Flower de luce, & Quint foiles.
1676 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Iliads ii. 33 Upon Lote and Cinquefoil feeding.
1858 R. Hogg Veg. Kingdom 304 The Cinquefoils..numbering nearly two hundred species.
1863 S. Baring-Gould Iceland 332 Sprinkled with the orange Alpine cinquefoil.
b. marsh cinquefoil: = Comarum palustre.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > marsh cinquefoil
marshlocks1776
Comarum1778
marsh cinquefoil1778
1778 G. White Let. 3 July in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 235 [I found] Comarum palustre..or marsh cinque foil.
2.
a. An ornamental design resembling the leaf of cinque-foil. Obsolete except as in A. 1b, A. 2c.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > [noun] > foils
cinquefoil1424
quinquefoil1445
trefoil1548
hexafoil1862
1424 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 56 Six saucers of siluere werkid with a sink foil vnder þe brerdeȝ.
1445 Will of Edmund Blackett (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/3) f. 233 A basyn with the qwynfoile with the Ewer.
1486 Bk. St. Albans, Her. B iij b Gerattyng haue .ix. bagges of cootarmuris... The fifthe baage is quynfolis.
1534 in E. Peacock Eng. Church Furnit. (1866) 193 A huntynge horne harnesid with siluer with a bukkill & xviii barres & a synkfoile.
b. As a charge in Heraldry.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > representations of vegetation > [noun] > leaf > cinquefoil
cinquefoil1592
frasier?1828
1592 W. Wyrley Lord Chandos in True Vse Armorie 88 In siluer shield a cinquefoil blue.
1863 C. Boutell Man. Heraldry xii. 71 In the early Rolls the cinquefoil and the six-foil are used without any distinction.
c. Architecture. An ornament used in the Pointed style, consisting of five divisions or ‘leaves’ formed by the spaces between a series of cusps, inscribed in a pointed arch or in a circular ring. Hence cinquefoil-headed adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > ornamentation by foils > specific number of foils
sexfoil1688
quatrefoil1805
cinquefoil1816
septfoil1819
trefoil head1825
multifoil1835
polyfoil1842
septemfoil1842
trefoil1842
sixfoil1849
four-foil1860
octofoil1867
1816 Gentleman's Mag. 86 i. 222 The window..is divided by two mullions into three cinquefoil-headed lights.
1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 950 The cinquefoil, when inscribed in a circle, forms a rosette of five equal leaves having an open space in the middle, the leaves being formed by the open spaces.
1849 E. A. Freeman Hist. Archit. 418 With..the cinquefoil, and even the actual pointed horse-shoe arch.
B. adj.
[= Latin quinquefolius] = cinquefoiled adj.
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the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > plant defined by leaves > [adjective] > having many or particular number of leaves
cinquefoilc1420
quatrefoil?1440
five-leaved1658
two-leaved1688
septifolious1721
tetraphyllous1731
trefoil1752
biphyllous1756
triphyllous1760
polyphyllous1785
decaphyllous1793
four-leaved1793
bifoliate1836
trefoiled1854
decemfoliate1858
polyphylline1872
trefoliated1900
decemjugate-
the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > rosaceous plants > [adjective]
cinquefoilc1420
rosaceous1701
rosacean1846
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [adjective] > foiled
cinquefoil1752
trefoil1752
quatrefoil1776
trefoiled1815
cinquefoiled1823
quatrefoiled1834
foiled1835
foliating1835
quatrefoliated1835
trefoliated1835
foliated1838
septfoil1844
sexfoil1846
sexfoiled1846
multifoil1849
trifoliated1850
multifoiled1851
trefoil-headed1861
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > [adjective] > foils
trefoiledc1420
cinquefoil1752
cinquefoiled1823
octofoil1844
octofoiled1844
septfoil1844
sexfoil1846
quinquefoil1909
c1420 Pallad. on Husb. iii. 656 Nowe betes sowe, and synk or quater foil Transplaunte.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 90/1 The Cinquefoile Avens hath the leaf divided into 5 parts.
1752 Philos. Trans. 1749–50 (Royal Soc.) 46 143 The Rays on the upper Part forming a beautiful cinquefoil Figure.
1815 T. Rickman in J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 139 In many doors, a trefoil and even cinquefoil feathering is used.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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