retrait

plural retraits

1. obsoleteA picture or other visual representation.

   She is the mighty Queene of Faerie, / Whose faire retrait I in my shield do beare […]

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

1. not comparableobsoleteRetired.

plural retraits

1. obsoleteObsolete form of retreat.

   Cyrus was his second Brother: who gave the occasion of that memorable work, and almost miraculous retrait of Xenophon.

   1658, Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus

present singular third person retraits · participle present retraiting · participle past retraited · past retraited

1. obsoleteObsolete form of retreat.

1. not comparableraregovernmentNot shown in full, but cut off at point it touches the edge of the shield, an ordinary, etc, as if retreating or withdrawn into that edge, ordinary, etc. (Compare issuant, naissant.)

   KETHEL in Holland uses, Azure, a pale retrait in chief (i.e., a demi-pal) soutenu by a chevron between three cauldrons or.

   1892, John Woodward, George Burnett, A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 121

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   The blazon : Arms : Per Saltire Gules and Or in fess two pellets pierced and in pale many plates also pierced on a chief Argent issuant as in chief seven pallets retrait two three and two Sable.

   1988, The Augustan Society Omnibus

   The upper margin is bordered by a low quality frieze bearing the coat of arms of Pope Gregory XV (r. 1621-1623) : gules, three bendlets retrait per fess […]

   2010, Elena De Laurentiis, The Lost Manuscripts from the Sistine Chapel: An Epic Journey from Rome to Toledo