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dancetté, -ee, a. Her.|ˈdænsəteɪ, -tɪ|
Also -ty.
[app. a corruption of F. danché, denché, in OF. also dansié (:—late L. denticātus, f. dent- tooth) used in same sense.
Dancetté or danceté may have originated in a scribal error for danché or dansié. OF. had also the phrase à danses = danché.]
Of a line, the edges of a fesse, etc.: Having large and deeply marked indentations, usually three in number; = dancy.
1610J. Guillim Heraldry ii. iii. (1660) 55 These two last mentioned sorts of Lines viz. Indented and Daunsette are both one..their forme is all one, but in quantity they differ much in that the one is much wider and deeper than the other. 1661Morgan Sph. Gentry i. ii. 15 Dancette differs from Indented, by reason it consists but of three teeth only. 1864Boutell Heraldry Hist. & Pop. xiii. (ed. 3) 115 A chief dancettee. 1882Cussans Heraldry ii. 47 The lines by which a shield is divided..may assume any of the following forms..Indented, Dancetté (but 3 indentations). Ibid. iv. 59 Argent; a Bend vert, between Cotises dancetté gules. |