Meanings
plural créquiers
- governmentA highly stylized tree of seven (less commonly, five) symmetrical branches, typically also depicted fruited, typically identified in English and French heraldic works as a wild cherry or wild plum.
83, the arms of the Créquy family are the créquier gules on a field or; see the picture.
1882, Notes and Queries, page 4191 more example
Gules, a créquier argent, are the arms of LE JOSNE (now LE JEUNE) Marquis DE CONTOY. Argent , a nut tree eradicated vert, is borne by NOZIER, and NOGARET in France, and by FACCHINETTI in Italy.
1896, John Woodward, A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 335
Origin
- Middle Dutchcrieke
- Old Frenchcreque
- Old Frenchcrekere
- Frenchcréquier
- Englishcréquier
From French créquier, from Old French crekere, derived from Old French creque, creke, borrowed from Middle Dutch crieke, related to Middle High German kreke (whence German Krieche (“damson plum”)).
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French créquier
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Italian vepre
- vepreTranslations
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