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Old 03-08-2004, 08:13 PM
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Sorry to crash your forum ladies but I was curious, what exactly is a quatrefoil? is it an architectual convention er what? ya'll defiantely have one of the most original badge shapes out there.
our badge is a quatrefoil!

claire, i can not believe that we didn't mention that the chapel at muhlenberg has a quatrefoil! we usually have inititation there.
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Old 03-08-2004, 10:47 PM
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How did I forget Egner Chapel??? I only went to church there every Sunday. Thanks Maria.
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Old 04-07-2004, 06:55 PM
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Quatrefoils

I have seen quatrefoils in some random places.

My Mom lives in New Mexico, and I spotted one in a ceiling window at a restaurant where we ate.

I was shopping in an outdoor mall in Birmingham, and noticed one of the fountains was quatrefoil-shaped. (There are several lion sculptures that sit in another fountain at the same mall!)

My boyfriend has a big portrait of a lion in his living room, and upon closer inspection, I discovered a small, golden quatrefoil in the corner!

Kind of makes me wonder about the whether the people who made these things are of any affiliation with Phi Mu.
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Old 04-08-2004, 11:01 PM
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Re: Quatrefoils

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I was shopping in an outdoor mall in Birmingham, and noticed one of the fountains was quatrefoil-shaped. (There are several lion sculptures that sit in another fountain at the same mall!)

There are quite a few quatrefoil fountains at the Summit Everytime I pass them (which is often) I always think about Phi Mu

I guess I must be completely unobservant because I've never noticed the lion statue in the fountain. I have some errands to run there this weekend...I'll have to take note!
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Old 04-09-2004, 03:24 PM
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I was in my boyfriend's grandparent's house over Spring Break a few weeks ago and looked up and his grandmother had two wooden tray's BOTH in the shape of a quatrafoil hanging on the wall! I got all excited when we left, telling him about it. He just thought I was crazy though
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Old 04-10-2004, 04:22 AM
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I just don't understand. lol. Does someone have a link to maybe how they explain how it's done? How can it look so 3d?? It's creeping me out!!
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Old 04-11-2004, 09:21 PM
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did you want a link to how the quatrefoil looks, or how the street chalk drawings look 3D? ;-)

The quatrefoil is in so many churches in Europe because it represents four circles overlapping symbolizing the four gospels, and the four points are liek a compass spreading the four gospels in the four directions, to spread Christianity throughout the world.

There's your fun fact for the day!
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Old 04-12-2004, 01:25 PM
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leave it to Allison to rock our respective worlds....

quatrafoils = so pretty. I want the pendant from Carnation Collection.
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Old 04-13-2004, 09:29 PM
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Which one? The nice sterling silver one or some of the BLING BLING ones?
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Old 04-19-2004, 11:33 PM
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Re: Re: Quatrefoils

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There are quite a few quatrefoil fountains at the Summit Everytime I pass them (which is often) I always think about Phi Mu

I guess I must be completely unobservant because I've never noticed the lion statue in the fountain. I have some errands to run there this weekend...I'll have to take note!
Sorry, it's been a while since I've checked back in here... the lions in the fountain are down near Saks and High Country.

What part of Birmigham are you from?I go to school in Jacksonville but my boyfriend's family is in Pelham, so I'm down there quite a bit.
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Old 04-20-2004, 02:13 AM
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Re: Re: Re: Quatrefoils

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Sorry, it's been a while since I've checked back in here... the lions in the fountain are down near Saks and High Country.

What part of Birmigham are you from?I go to school in Jacksonville but my boyfriend's family is in Pelham, so I'm down there quite a bit.
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Old 06-22-2004, 01:38 PM
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Good afternoon! I haven't been on here for a long time! I have photos from spain i never scanned in for a thread like this!
motivation!
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Old 06-23-2004, 12:27 AM
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I was in Boston this weekend and when I was walking around Harvard's campus, I found two quatrafoils on one of their buildings. I was so excited!!!
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Old 09-24-2004, 01:41 PM
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My husband and I went to San Antonio this weekend and there were quatrefoils everywhere! The sidewalk outside our hotel on the Riverwalk had them randomly every few steps. They were on buildings every once in a while. My husband even got in to the Spot a Quatrefoil game. I even convinced him to buy me some jewelry off of the Carnation Collection. I WIN!
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Old 09-24-2004, 03:11 PM
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The four gospels/compass aspect is interesting. Merriam-Webster online doesn't mention it, so it must be (almost) exclusively European in that regard.

Main Entry: qua·tre·foil
Pronunciation: 'ka-t&r-"foil, 'ka-tr&-
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English quaterfoil set of four leaves, from Middle French quatre + Middle English -foil (as in trefoil)
1 : a conventionalized representation of a flower with four petals or of a leaf with four leaflets
2 : a 4-lobed foliation in architecture
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