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单词 escarteled
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escarteledescarteleeadj.

Etymology: < Old French escartelé, past participle of escarteler (modern French écarteler) to break into quarters = Provençal esquartelar, < es- ( < Latin ex out) + medieval Latin quartellus, diminutive of quartus fourth.
Heraldry. Obsolete.
1. Quartered or quarterly.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > lines or edges > [adjective] > divided in two > quartered
quartled1480
quartered1486
per or in cross1562
escarteled1727
quadrated1810
1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Escartelé, (in Heralrdy) signifies quarter’d or quarterly.
1775 in J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang.
1889 C. N. Elvin Dict. Heraldry 56/2 Escartelee, when the straight line is cut off in the middle, with a perfect square, into an ordinary or partition.
2. Having a square notch. [This sense is apparently due to a misunderstanding of some sort. The French writers on heraldry (e.g. Palliot 1664) recognize croix escartelée only as meaning a cross divided by lines along the middle of each arm: this is substantially = sense 1.] In modern dictionaries.
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1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory i. iii. 19 Escartelee, that is, when the streight line is cut off in the middle with a perfect Square.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory i. iii. 21 A Chief Escartelee.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory i. v. 47 Some call it a cross escartalled, couped: as if it had only a nick or notch..sawed into the four ends of it.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory i. ix. 92 A Cross Patee escarteled.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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