What is "quatrefoils"

Usage examples of "quatrefoils".

A tessellation of quatrefoils and blind multifoils ran riot at the roofline.

As for Fess and Flitter, they were over joyed just to be going home, and even the Unicorn's golden eyes brightened at the thought of her own comfortable private garden, and the prospect of crisp quatrefoils for dinner.

Or the delightful little apparatus for analyzing the combustion of oil, and the glass globules arrayed like quatrefoil petals, with other quatrefoils connected by golden tubes, and quatrefoils attached to other, crystal, tubes leading first to a copper cylinder, then to the gold-and-glass cylinder below it, then to other tubes, lower still, pendulous appendages, testicles, glands, goiters, crests.

Carved lattices of interlocking stone quatrefoils shaded the canal front arcades.

In the shadows of the gates, the white quatrefoils of the Guards shone like a ghostly meadow of asphodel on the faded black of their massed shoulders.

This sci-deck didn’t have a lattice to protect the crew from falling, but instead a short wall of alien metal with a field of quatrefoils cut into it, each big enough to put a hand through, to allow sound and light to pass through.