单词 | nombril point |
释义 | > as lemmasnombril point 1. Heraldry. More fully nombril point: the point on an escutcheon which lies midway between the true centre (or fess point) and the base point. Cf. navel point n. at navel n. Compounds 2. Now chiefly literary and historical. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > escutcheon or shield > [noun] > one of nine fixed positions > other points fesse-point1562 nombril1562 honour point1572 umbilic point1586 navel point1725 abyss1753 1562 G. Legh Accedens of Armory (1597) 25 The letter H. is termed the Fesse point. The letter I. is called the Nombril. 1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie i. vii. 30 The Nombrill is next vnderneath the Fesse Point, answering in a like distance from the Fesse Point. 1661 S. Morgan Sphere of Gentry iii. vi. 57 All meeting or centring about a round plate of the same in the Nombril of the Shield. 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II. (at cited word) The first of those [parts] is the Nombril, and the lowest the Base. 1797 Encycl. Brit. VIII. 441/2 E the fess point. F the nombril point. ?1828 W. Berry Encycl. Heraldica I. sig. Eee4/1 Nombril, or Navel Point, is the next below the fesse-point. 1866 J. E. Cussans Gram. Heraldry 7 In English heraldry, mention is seldom made of the Honor and Nombril points. 1923 C. M. Doughty Mansoul (rev. ed.) iv. 132 Is thatched that House, With shining plate, bucklers of God-like warriors; The nombrils of pured gold. 1955 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ Compl. Poems (1994) II. 740 Equally ready when it comes to the pasterns of a horse, The tilts of a camel-litter, The nombril of a shield. a1970 C. Olson Maximus Poems (1983) 93 Not that any of us would use such language: the Tree of Battles: or palette fess nombril base. 1986 B. B. Broughton Dict. Medieval Knighthood at Points of the shield Areas of a shield named to help with the blazon: honor, fess, nombril. < as lemmas |
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