(n.) A figure composed of two equilateral triangles intersecting so as to form a six-pointed star, -- used in early ornamental art, and also with superstitious import by the astrologers and mystics of the Middle Ages.
Example Sentences:
(1) Maybe it was the flaming pentacle that opened in the ground, or the way the holy water vaporised in David's shadow, who knows.
Pentangle
Definition:
(n.) A pentagon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Chris Bryant, the Labour shadow minister who led his party's Newark operation, talks of a complex "pentangle of switching": some Labour voters moved to Ukip to give Cameron a kicking, others who traditionally voted Lib Dem as an "up yours" to the political establishment have slipped over to the Farageists, and so on.
(2) "Well, my current listening habits have involved Pentangle and Swans, so maybe not," laughs Fleming.