varriated

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adjective

Cut in the form of vair; battlemented with solid projections and crenelles, both pointed, but in the latter case reversed.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

adjectivevarriated (not comparable)

alternative warriated

  1. not comparablegovernmentCut in the form of vair; battlemented with solid projections and crenelles, both pointed, but in the latter case reversed.

    Variated—[See VARRIATED.] […]Varriated—(var'-ri-ated) A bearing cut in the form of vair; as, a bend varriated on the outsides.

    1908, Arthur Francis Pimbley, Pimbley's Dictionary of Heraldry: Together with an Illustrated Supplement, page 66
    1 more example

    Urdée, in point, or contrary urdée, termed also varriated, point in point. See Plate XLIX. No. 2, fig. 32, viz. barry of six, contrary urdée; by some blazoned, barry of six, champion—barry of six, per pale, varriated, point in point—

    1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica: Or, Complete Dictionary of Heraldry

Origin

  1. Latinvariatus
  2. Englishvarriated

Later (1828) variant of variated, from Latin variatus, past participle of variare.

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