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What is a quatrefoil?

What is a quatrefoil? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (architecture) A symmetrical shape that forms the overall outline of four partially-overlapping circles of the same diameter.
  2. (heraldry) A stylized flower or leaf with four lobes.
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The moneyer's name, Eoba, is on the reverse, each letter in a petal of a quatrefoil.
In hinges the cinquefoil displaced the quatrefoil, as at Orb, Oppenheim, and Magdeburg.
Dogwood, in white and pale yellow, is a complex quatrefoil that looks like a Gothic Frank Lloyd Wright design.
Four purlins run along the roof, with quatrefoil wind braces between them.
Officers have the quatrefoil on their service caps, and all wear the bronze 1868 globe and anchor and khaki shirts with neckties.
Indeed, the pointed arch shape and tracery with trefoil and quatrefoil are typical of Middle Age architecture.

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