treflée

adjective

Trefoiled, trefly.

OriginFrench tréflé(e) →
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Meanings

adjectivetreflée (not comparable)
  1. not comparablegovernmentTrefoiled, trefly.

    Gaddi: Azure, a cross treflée or.

    1901, Howel Wills, Florentine Heraldry: A Supplement to the Guide-books, page 118
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    3. ALBERT EDWARD PRINCE OF WALES. The Royal arms as above, differenced with a label of three points argent, over all, barry of ten or and sable a bend treflée vert (Saxony).

    1921, Edward Alfred Webb, The Records of St. Bartholomew's Priory and of the Church and Parish of St. Bartholomew's the Great: West Smithfield, page 478

    Vert, a cross treflée (or flory) argent between four open crowns or, in a canton of the second the Blessed Virgin holding the Holy Child proper. (Woodward, Ecclesiastical Heraldry.

    1927, Notes and Queries, page 82

Origin

  1. Frenchtréflé(e)
  2. Englishtreflée

Borrowed from French tréflé(e). See trefoil. Doublet of trifoliate.

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