| 单词 | half cheek-bit |
| 释义 | > as lemmashalf cheek-bit 10. Heraldry. Designating a truncated charge, figure, etc. (= demi- prefix 1), as in half-belt, half cheek-bit, half-spade, half-spear, etc. Π 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. vii. 44 He beareth Gules, an Horse Bit, Argent. Some do call it..an Half Cheek-Bit. 1771 E. Kimber & R. Johnson Baronetage of Eng. II. 287 Arms. Gules, a Cheveron, Ermine, between three half Spears, broken, the Staff, Or, and Iron, Argent. 1828 W. Berry Encycl. Her. at Spade This..spade is borne in the arms of Swettenham, but they appear as half-spades. 1889 C. N. Elvin Dict. Heraldry Half-belt and four buckles. 2000 J. W. Baldwin Aristocratic Life in Medieval France ii. 43 The English historian Matthew Paris furnished a colored sketch of Otto's heraldry in the margin of his chronicle, with a half eagle and three half lions. < as lemmas |
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