Cinque Foil
the name of a species of the genus Potentilla, which have fingered leaves. In architecture, it is an ornamental foliation or feathering, used in the arches of the lights and tracery of windows, panelling, etc.
CINQUE PORTS (Five Ports), the sea-port towns of Dover, Sandwich , Hastings, Hythe, and Romney, England; to which two others were afterward added, viz., Winchelsea and Rye . These towns are incorporated, with peculiar privileges; most of which, however, have been A Lord been gradually abolished. A Lord Warden, most of whose special privileges have also been abolished, is still appointed and has his residence at Walmer Castle near Deal .