Meanings
adjectiveployé (not comparable)
- not comparablegovernmentBowed, curved.
Thus, Argent, a chevron ployé gules (d'Argent, au chevron ployé de gueules) is the coat of the Danish AUGUSTINS or OWSTINS; the reverse is that of the RODENEGGS, Counts WOLKENSTEIN.
1892, John Woodward, George Burnett, A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 137
Origin
French. Doublet of plicate.
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