Definitions for cinquefoil

cinquefoil cinque·foil

Spelling: [singk-foil]
IPA: /ˈsɪŋkˌfɔɪl/

Cinquefoil is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 28 points.

You can make 284 anagrams from letters in cinquefoil (cefiilnoqu).

Definitions for cinquefoil

noun

  1. any of several plants belonging to the genus Potentilla, of the rose family, having yellow, red, or white five-petaled flowers, as P. reptans (creeping cinquefoil) of the Old World, or P. argentea (silvery cinquefoil) of North America.
  2. Also called quinquefoil, quintefoil. Architecture. a panellike ornament consisting of five lobes, divided by cusps, radiating from a common center.
  3. Heraldry. a charge in the form of a five-leaved clover.

Origin of cinquefoil

1375-1425; late Middle English sink foil Middle French cincfoille Latin quīnque folia five leaves, translation of Greek pentáphyllon

Examples for cinquefoil

A circlet round the brow of the little figure bears the Leicester badge, the cinquefoil.

Over each seat is an ogee canopy, cinquefoil, crocketed, and surmounted by a huge finial.

The raspberry-bine was there, and the great oak with the seat around it, and the carpet of cinquefoil and wild strawberry.

Beyond it there was only an upward-climbing fringe of grass, starred with cinquefoil and wild strawberry—and then the precipice.

Greater freedom of moulding and the use of trefoil and cinquefoil may be, but need not be, explained in this way.

The panels are pointed and divided each into two cinquefoil divisions.

They are closely allied to cinquefoil, and all belong to the rose family.

On the south side the westernmost Perpendicular bay, up to the triforium, is solid and covered with cinquefoil panelling.

In June, he writes, "The wind dies, bees hover outside the open tower windows, the cinquefoil blooms butter yellow in the meadow."

These are thicker than in the cinquefoil, and are often tinged with pink.

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