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‖ lambeau Obs.
Also 6 lambewe. Pl. lambeaux (also erroneously used as sing.).
[Fr.: see label.]
A strip or fillet hanging from a head-dress or garment. In Her., one of the dependent points of a label (see label 5); occas. the label itself.
1562Leigh Armorie (1597) 107 He beareth Argent, a fyle with iij Lambeaux Azure, for a difference. Some will call them a Labell of three pointes... The field Argent, a File, and one Lambewe Vert. 1599Hakluyt Voy. II. ii. 81 At his cappe hang certaine Lambeaux much like vnto a Bishops Miter. 1610J. Guillim Heraldry i. vi. (1611) 22 Some other authors call them files, and others Lambeaux or labels. 1688R. Holme Armoury i. 108/2 Lambeaux, Plaits of a Garment. 1828–40Berry Encycl. Herald. I, Cross lambeaux is the bearing of a cross upon a lambeaux or label.
Hence † ˈlambeauxed a., ‘dovetailed’ (Gloss. Her. 1847). |