[
UK
/tɹˈɛfɔɪl/
]
NOUN
- any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves
- an architectural ornament in the form of three arcs arranged in a circle
- a plant of the genus Trifolium
How To Use trefoil In A Sentence
- Co.rtesy Loree Rodkin Co. Jessica Biel shows off white-gold and diamond quatrefoil earrings with briolette dangles. Loree Rodkin's Star Studded Jewelry
- The bishop is represented as in the act of benediction, with a pastoral staff, and in full pontificals; his head is shown as resting on a cushion, and is surmounted by a trefoil arch with a crocketed gable, and a censer-bearing angel on each side. Ely Cathedral
- Tall grassland is scattered with hawkweed, ragwort, wild carrot and melilot flowers, along with clumps of bird's-foot trefoil, lucerne and goat's rue, and there are regular uprisings of brambles and wild rose, and sprawls of sallow and birch scrub. Country Diary: Canvey Wick, Essex
- Some of the resulting works clearly echo organic, generally floral, motifs such as Apsaras, whose swelling blue and green quatrefoils swirl out from a central node.
- Friedman combined these by twisting wire to form the simplest knot there is - an overhand knot mathematicians call a trefoil - and then dipping it into soapy water. Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews
- To this fusion are added Gothic style elements in the legs (a rounded arch above and a trefoil below each), colorful French ceramics with a Moorish flavor, and exotic serpents on either side of the ceramic cylinder.
- The gable is ‘enlivened with twisting colonnettes, leaded windows in arched openings, and quatrefoils.’
- Gatekeeper and speckled wood butterflies flit between hemp agrimony, dusty ferns, patches of yellow bird's-foot trefoil and blue tufted vetch. Country diary: St Stephens-by-Saltash
- Another trefoil that can be found in fields now is hare's-foot. Times, Sunday Times
- Gatekeeper and speckled wood butterflies flit between hemp agrimony, dusty ferns, patches of yellow bird's-foot trefoil and blue tufted vetch. Country diary: St Stephens-by-Saltash