Quatrefoil

Example of four-leaf

Pattern of ornamentation of Gothic style, the four-leaf consists of four arcs of circles centered successively taking the corners of a square reference. These arcs can be tangential or secant.

• Running curved, is also possible from the fourteenth ^century, the portions are then embellished with bows bow of arch , arch.

• The pattern of ornamentation called Quad lobe consists of unbroken arcs.

See

• Glossary of Architecture

• Portal architecture and urbanism

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