cercelly

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A form of sarcelly — Having its end terminate in forked tips which curl around both ways, either like or else more pronounced than moline or anchory/ancré.

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Meanings

adjectivecercelly (not comparable)
  1. not comparableobsoleteObsolete spelling of sarcelly.

    22. a cross-cercelly between four cross croslets fitchy or. - ROBINSON[…]

    1780, Joseph Edmondson, A Complete Body of Heraldry
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    Sa., on a chevron within a bordure arg., 3 sprigs of 3 broom vert; 2 Gu., a cross cercelly betw. 4 fishes hauriant; 3. Arg. on a chevron sa. betw. 3 ogresses, as many roses of the field (BILLINGTON) .

    1993, Sir Edward Bysshe, The Visitation of Oxfordshire, 1669 and 1675, London : Harleian Society
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Chicago

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