quatrefoil / 4 foil

Foils are arcs or segments of a circle which make up Gothic tracery. They are separated by cusps, the points at which two separate arcs meet. 4 foil is Ruskin's shorthand for quatrefoil, tracery made up of four arcs separated by four cusps to give four openings.

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