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‖ ˈrustre Also 8 roustrie. [F. rustre, † ruste (? rute), of obscure history.] 1. Her. A charge having the form of a lozenge, with a round hole in the middle through which the field appears.
[1680Mackenzie Herauldry 48 The English call their Figures Macles..; but if they be pierc'd round, the French call them rustres.] 1722A. Nisbet Syst. Her. I. 171 The Sub-Ordinaries... Fusils, Lozenge, Mascle, Roustrie, Frett [etc.]. Ibid. 211 Of the Rustre. 1762tr. Busching's Syst. Geogr. V. 480 A lion crowned Or in a field sable, and below it eight black rustres in a field Or. 1838Penny Cycl. XII. 141/2 The subordinate ordinaries,..the Lozenge, the Fusil, the Mascle, and the Rustre. 1868Cussans Her. (1893) 71 Some Armorists blazon a Rustre as a Mascle pierced round. 1880Encycl. Brit. XI. 697/1 The lozenge, the mascle, and the rustre are all derived from the fret or fretty. ¶2. (See quot. 1824.) This is due to a mere inference by Meyrick as to the origin of the heraldic charge. Cf. mascle n.1 4.
1824Meyrick Anc. Armour III. Glossary, Rustre, a ring, or rather open scale, of a number of which hauberks were formed in the twelfth century. 1847Parker Gloss. Her. 270 Some ancient armour was composed of rustres sewn upon cloth. Hence ˈrustred ppl. a., furnished with rustres.
1818Meyrick in Archaeol. (1821) XIX. 126 Such an expression, seems more suitable to the rustred [mail]. 1824― Anc. Armour I. 27 The form of the rustred armour seems..to have grown out of the ringed. 1877Demmin Arms & Armour 310 The ‘rustred’ hauberk..was protected by oval flattened rings, overlapping each other half way. |