rempli

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adjective

Having another tincture than its own covering the greater part.

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Meanings

adjectiverempli (not comparable)
  1. not comparableraregovernmentHaving another tincture than its own covering the greater part.

    Chief rempli, or bordered. Plate XXIX.

    1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry, page 21
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    (42) Berks, an Antient and Honourable FAmily, but hath yet no Issue. His Arms are Argent on a Chief Gules, two Mullets Or, a Label on a Crescent for his Armorial difference; and for Crest the Falcon Or. Ducally gorged Gules, and an Eagle Or on the Breast of the last; the Lock Gold, rempli per Pale Argent and Sable therein, […]

    1713, Notitia St. Johanniana: or, Genealogical and historical memoirs of the ... family of St. John, etc

    rempli [...], a. [< F. rempli, pp. of remplir, fill up, < re- + emplir, fill, < L. implere, fill up : see implement.] In her., having another tincture than its own laid over or covering the greater part : thus, a chief azure rempli or has a broad band of gold occupying nearly the whole space of the chief, so that only a blue fimbriation shows around it. [Image caption:] Argent, a chief azure rempli or.

    1914, The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, page 5073

Origin

  1. Frenchrempli
  2. Frenchrempli
  3. Englishrempli

Borrowed from French rempli.

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