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单词 fylfot
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Definition of fylfot in English:

fylfot

noun ˈfɪlfɒtˈfɪlfɑt
  • A swastika.

    万字饰

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The church of Princenhage (Breda-West) has a few fylfots, trifos and twofoses (yin/yang-like) decorations at the top of the windows in the church-building.
    • One carved stone pillar now in the National Museum in Dublin, has an arrow between two Druid crosses (fylfots) pointing towards a Christian sun cross.
    • The most ornate cape ever found in Latvia, it includes 40 crosses (fylfots) in 23 variations and 5,000 woven bronze ringlets.
    • The gardens' Millennium maze, which is constructed from stones arranged in the shape of the ancient fylfot symbol carved in a rock on Ilkley Moor, recently had its thousandth and final stone laid.
    • Related symbols are the cross and the fylfot, or four-legged swastika.
    • See, there are real reasons why we must use fylfots and representations of the spiral galaxies - they are some of the right symbols.
    • I read through it quickly and skipped to the pictures which were of some quite narrow bands with mini designs such as fylfots and other such things.
    • Examples of fylfots in heraldry are extremely rare.
    • While there may be some similarity between the fylfot and the swastika, the former, which in Asia symbolises peace and good will, is considerably older than the swastika, and was recognised, and in general use, thousands of years before it was hijacked by the Nazi party.
    • Here each piece [of the quartering] takes the form of the mystic fylfot, or gammadion.
    • The contrasting rim is divided into octants, with a blue and yellow geometric pattern alternating with interleaved black fylfots on a green ground.
    • To return to the fylfot, various interpretations of its symbolic use amongst our ancestors have been put forward.

Origin

Late 15th century: perhaps from fill-foot 'pattern filling the foot of a painted window'.

Definition of fylfot in US English:

fylfot

nounˈfilfätˈfɪlfɑt
  • A swastika.

    万字饰

    Example sentencesExamples
    • One carved stone pillar now in the National Museum in Dublin, has an arrow between two Druid crosses (fylfots) pointing towards a Christian sun cross.
    • Here each piece [of the quartering] takes the form of the mystic fylfot, or gammadion.
    • Related symbols are the cross and the fylfot, or four-legged swastika.
    • I read through it quickly and skipped to the pictures which were of some quite narrow bands with mini designs such as fylfots and other such things.
    • To return to the fylfot, various interpretations of its symbolic use amongst our ancestors have been put forward.
    • The church of Princenhage (Breda-West) has a few fylfots, trifos and twofoses (yin/yang-like) decorations at the top of the windows in the church-building.
    • Examples of fylfots in heraldry are extremely rare.
    • The most ornate cape ever found in Latvia, it includes 40 crosses (fylfots) in 23 variations and 5,000 woven bronze ringlets.
    • The gardens' Millennium maze, which is constructed from stones arranged in the shape of the ancient fylfot symbol carved in a rock on Ilkley Moor, recently had its thousandth and final stone laid.
    • See, there are real reasons why we must use fylfots and representations of the spiral galaxies - they are some of the right symbols.
    • While there may be some similarity between the fylfot and the swastika, the former, which in Asia symbolises peace and good will, is considerably older than the swastika, and was recognised, and in general use, thousands of years before it was hijacked by the Nazi party.
    • The contrasting rim is divided into octants, with a blue and yellow geometric pattern alternating with interleaved black fylfots on a green ground.

Origin

Late 15th century: perhaps from fill-foot ‘pattern filling the foot of a painted window’.

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