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Quincunx
Also called quincunxes
An arrangement of five elements, four at the corners of a square and one at its centre, as in the five towers of Angkor Wat.
Rules that use the word
Five domes in a quincunx. Crown the four corner bays of a cross-in-square with smaller domes on drums around the great central dome, making a five-domed quincunx.
The temple as Mount Meru. Build the state temple as a stepped mountain with five towers in a quincunx (one at the centre and four at the corners), representing the five peaks of Mount Meru, surrounded by walls and a moat for the mountains and ocean that ring the world.
Where it appears in the book
In the chapters South and Southeast Asia.
Nearby in the glossary
Qibla · Quadrant vault · Quadratura · Quadripartite vault · Quinto acuto · Quoin · Radiating chapels · Rafter