单词 | plumetty |
释义 | plumettyadj.n. Heraldry. A. adj. Charged with a motif of (overlapping) feathers. rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > [adjective] > other manners or types of subordinary plumettyc1460 fretty1562 billeté1572 flanched1688 flasqued1881 c1460 Bk. Arms in Ancestor (1903) Oct. 193 Gold and purpull plomte. 1780 J. Edmondson Compl. Body Heraldry II. (Gloss.) Plumetty, when the field is divided into fusils, filled with the ends of feathers, depicted in metal and colour alternately, such field is said to be Plumetty. 1966 Coll. of Arms MS Grants 129/256 Per pale and per chevron Sable and Argent counterchanged a Bordure plumetty of Peacock's Feathers Azure. B. n. A heraldic field charged with a motif of (overlapping) feathers; heraldry involving the use of such a motif. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic representations of creatures > [noun] > parts of creatures > feathers plumetty1729 1729 A. Boyer Grand Théatre de l'Honneur xxi. 285 The Paly, Bendy, Semée, Plumetty, Papelonné, and other decent Partitions, do indifferently admit Charges either of Metal, or Colour. 1892 J. Woodward & G. Burnett Treat. Heraldry I. iii. 72 In Plumeté the field is apparently covered with feathers. 1956 Coll. of Arms MS Grants 118/292 Quarterly Or and Plumettée of Peacocks tail feathers Azure. 1969 J. Franklyn & J. Tanner Encycl. Dict. Heraldry 261/2 Plumetty, a field..of feathers.., a form that did not survive, and of which the few examples preserved from the feudal period contradict each other in appearance: one form is semé..of feathers; another consists of barwise rows of feathers conjoined laterally; yet a third displays a field totally covered with overlapping feathers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.c1460 |
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