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foil. In Gothic tracery any circular lobe tangent to the inner side of a larger arc or arch, meeting other lobes in points called cusps projecting inwards from the arch: prefixes are used to describe how many foils occur— tre foil (3), quatre foil (4), cinque foil (5), sex foil (6), multi foil, etc. A ...

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