“escartelee”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

escartelee

释义

† escarteled, escartelee, a. Her. Obs.
[ad. and a. OF. escartelé, pa. pple. of escarteler (mod.F. écarteler) to break into quarters = Pr. esquartelar, f. es- (:—L. ex out) + med.L. quartellus, dim. of quartus fourth.]
1. Quartered or quarterly.
1730–6Bailey (folio) Escartelé.1775in Ash.1889in Elvin Dict. Her.
¶2. Having a square notch.[This sense is app. due to a misunderstanding of some sort. The Fr. 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.] 1688R. Holme Armoury i. iii. 19 Escartelee, that is, when the streight line is cut off in the middle with a perfect Square.Ibid. 21 A Chief Escartelee.Ibid. 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.Ibid. i. ix. 92 A Cross Patee escarteled. [Hence in mod. Dicts.]

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