Meanings
adjectiveoctofoil (not comparable)
- not comparableHaving eight lobes or leaves.First known use 19th c.
Then there was the cool air as I entered the front hall of Number Twelve Šporkova, the metal box for the electrics built into the wall beside the entrance with its lightning symbol, the octofoil mosaic flower in shades of dove grey and snow white […]
2001, WG Sebald, translated by Anthea Bell, Austerlitz, Penguin, published 2011, page 213
nounoctofoil (plural octofoils)
plural octofoils
- governmentA stylized flower or leaf with eight lobes; a double quatrefoil.
Origin
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