Sentence:  In its beauty and design that vision of the soaring stands, the pattern of forty thousand <WSD>empetalled</WSD> faces, the velvet and unalterable geometry of the playing field, and the small lean figures of the players, set there, lonely, tense and waiting in their places, bright, desperate solitary atoms encircled by that huge wall of nameless faces, is incredible. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  ("of a large number of similar objects") Resembling petals.