compass-rose

For furniture, in deference to the Valdemar contingent of the Joint Council, there were chairs and a table, but the chairs were of woven grapevine and wicker with soft cushions, and the table was a compass-rose shape of tree-trunk sections, topped with three rising layers of polished wood with one section for each member of the Council.

Elephant in the City 2010

LONDON,CAIS -- An ancient four-pointed compass-rose showing directions of ‘four cardinal points’ and a number of board-games carved on rocks discovered in the Iranian island of Kharg in the Persian Gulf, reported Persian service of CHN on Saturday.

Archive 2008-04-01 Jan 2008

Some sections of the compass-rose have been damaged, apparently as the result of a cracks in the rock, said Ghiasabadi.

Archive 2008-04-01 Jan 2008

The first discovered carving is located beside an ancient road which is a four-pointed compass-rose showing directions of four cardinal points within a square-shape with rounded angles setting, 50x50cm in diameters.

Archive 2008-04-01 Jan 2008

And between them, spokes still finer still, until the room in which she sat was gone, and in her imagination Idalia sat at the center of a silvery wheel, a compass-rose of sixty-four petals, all radiating outward from where she sat.

The Outstretched Shadow 2003

The 7 was gleaned from the top deck of the E the east indicator in a compass-rose, shown below the rising sun and the R.

Shadow of the Sentinel WARREN GETLER 2003

A 53-foot-wide porcelain tile piece, called "Whirls and Twirls MTA," was installed in 2009 near a major stairwell in the station, and a compass-rose pattern can be seen on the floor near the mezzanine entrance to the south.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

Slenderer spokes between them cross-quartering the wheel: southwest, northwest, northeast, southeast" And between them, spokes still finer still, until the room in which she sat was gone, and in her imagination Idalia sat at the center of a silvery wheel, a compass-rose of sixty-four petals, all radiating outward from where she sat.

Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010