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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
cinquefoil .
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- noun heraldry Alternative spelling of
cinquefoil .
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TRITONIDES, which are notably trefoil; the NAIADES, notably quatrefoil, but for which I keep their present pretty name; and the BATRACHIDES, [59] notably cinqfoil, for which I keep their present ugly one, only changing it from Latin into Greek.
Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859
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