Meanings
plural trangles
- raregovernmentOne of the (rarely used) diminutives of the fess (bar) or chief, a fillet or closet.
The quartered arms of the See were usually arranged in an oval escucheon I. Gules, […] an eagle sable, crowned with an antique crown and supported by a trangle held in its claws, is brochant over the stem of the tree.
1894, John Woodward, A Treatise on Ecclesiastical Heraldry, page 2981 more example
Bendy of fix Gules and Argent; on a Chief of the last, a Rose of the first, supported by a Trangle (the Diminutive of a Barr. A Fillet , with the English, for the Diminutive of a Chief, of which before) Or, charged with a[…]
1722, Alexander Nisbet, A System of Heraldry Speculative and Practical, page 73
Origin
From or related to French trangle.
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