sixfoiln.
Architecture and Heraldry.
An ornamental design (or opening) having the form of six leaflets or petals radiating from a common centre.
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sexfoil1688
quatrefoil1805
cinquefoil1816
septfoil1819
trefoil head1825
multifoil1835
polyfoil1842
septemfoil1842
trefoil1842
sixfoil1849
four-foil1860
octofoil1867
1849 J. Ruskin Seven Lamps Archit. ii. 53 The double sub-arch, decorated..with quatrefoils, sixfoils, and septfoils, in the transept towers of Rouen.
1863 C. Boutell Heraldry Hist. & Pop. (ed. 2) xv. 179 In early blazoning, but little difference appears to have been recognized between sixfoils and roses.
1863 C. Boutell Man. Heraldry xii. 71 In the early Rolls the cinquefoil and the six-foil are used without any distinction.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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