sexfoil, a. and n.
(ˈsɛksfɔɪl)
[f. sex-, after trefoil, cinquefoil.]
A. adj. Having six foliations.
| 1848 Rickman's Styles Archit. Introd. 26 A small sexfoil gable window. 1906 Proc. Soc. Antiq. 6 Dec. 261 The chalice is 59/16 inches high, with a sexfoil foot. 1907 E. A. Jones Ch. Plate I. Man Introd. 16 The sexfoil depression is superseded..by a single circular depression. |
B. n. Arch. and Her. = sixfoil.
| 1688 Holme Armoury ii. iv. 60 He beareth Argent, a Sexfoile, or a Sisefoile, Sable. 1828–40 Berry Encycl. Her. I, Sexfoil, or Sisefoil, is a grass, or flower, with six leaves, formed like the cinquefoil which has five. 1851 Pugin Chancel Screens 85 With images of angels in sexfoils. |