Meanings
- not comparableOf an object or design: featuring three leaf-like or petal-like lobes.
This is the wixy old Willingdone picket up the half of the threefoiled hat of lipoleums fromoud of the bluddle filth.
1924, James Joyce, FINNEGANS WAKE, page 103 more examples
Some of the artifacts were typical for a high status Viking Age woman’s grave: one threefoiled and two oval brooches and a number of beads were characteristic attributes for the female costume of the time and date the grave to the middle of the tenth century.
2012, Ing-Marie Back Danielsson and Susanne Thedéen (eds), “The Aska Pendant”, in To Tender Gender The Pasts and Futures of Gender Research in Archaeology, page 44The main church of the site (the basilica Nova) for example, a three-aisled basilica with a raised threefoiled apse, was seen as derived from north African models. Nevertheless, recent studies on the building and its decoration indicate that the basilica reflects the wider cultural horizon of its patron.
2014, Unattributed, “Medieval Art and Architecture in Southern Italy I: Mobility and Materiality”, in Italian Art SocietyRosary with threefoiled crucifix in Palestinian olive wood 8 mm ( 0,31 in ). Rosary in olive wood made by Palestinian artisans.
2019, Unattributed, Holy Art
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