sarcelé

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

adjectivesarcelé (not comparable)
  1. alternativenot comparableAlternative form of sarcelly.

    A. a cross sarcelé voided, G.

    1822, Daniel Lysons, Magna Britannia;: Devonshire
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    Gules, on a crosse sarcelé d'or five mollettes of the firste, persed. But this Crosse, and others, I fynde so often not well figured that it maketh me doubteful of the certayne names thereof. Wherfore, it is very needefull for[…]

    1865, John Gough Nichols, The Herald and Genealogist, page 97

    Over ye doore att ye entrance into ye Hall in ye Stone worke — A Cross sarcely, which as it is painted in many places in ye Hall is Arg. a Cross sarcelé, Sab. [P. 45.]

    1911, Lincoln Record Society, The Publications of the Lincoln Record Society, page 52

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
sarcelled
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APA

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Chicago

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