bretessée

A form of bretessé — Embattled (as a bend, fesse, etc), especially if embattled-counterembattled on both sides with the projections coming opposite each other.

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Meanings

adjectivebretessée (not comparable)
  1. alternativenot comparableAlternative form of bretessé.

    [The fess, on the arms of] Woodward, is bretessée.

    1962, Thomas Baty, Julian Franklyn, Vital Heraldry, Edinburgh : The Armorial
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    Dexter : Azure a lion rampant barry of eight Argent and Gules crowned Or. Sinister : Gules a fess bretessée Argent. The shield is ensigned of a crozier Or. (Unidentified Abbey, France ?) 207 (U.1.11). AUTEUR INCONNU.

    1956, The Bibliotheck
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