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Adjective edit

cercelée (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of sarcelly
    • 1724, John Guillim, A Display of Heraldry, page 22:
      A Cross Moline; many of our Countrymen are out about this Cross, which they Confound with the Cross cercelée, whereas it shou'd be always square pierced, it being a Milrind dispos'd in Cross. The Book of St. Albans hath Crucem []
    • 1866, Great Britain. Public Record Office, Rerum Britannicarum Medii Aevi Scriptores: Or, Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland During the Middle Ages, page 433:
      “De Bares,” gules, a cross, cercelée, or; 3. “De Bar,” azure, two barbels addorsed, or. Below these are drawn the standards of the Hospitallers and Templars reversed, viz., “Vexillum Hospitalis,” gules, a cross []
    • 1882, Matthew Paris, Matthaei Parisiensis, monachi Sancti Albani, Chronica majora, page 470:
      [] azure, a lion rampant gules, impaling or a cross cercelée sable, both dimidiated.
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    • 1894, British Museum. Department of Manuscripts, Walter de Gray Birch, Catalogue of Seals in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, page 692:
      A shield of arms : a cross cercelée, WILLOUGHBY.
    • 1914, Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society, Transactions and Journal of Proceedings, page 70:
      In pavement of porch an abbot's stone bearing 2 shields (1) a cross cercelée; (2) a lion rampant.

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Adjective edit

cercelée

  1. feminine singular of cercelé (sarcelly)
    • 1883, Foras, Le blason: dictionnaire et remarques, page 136:
      Pour moi, les deux exemples de Palliot fournissent deux croix cercelées, également identiquement cercelées, quoique l’une soit près de moitié plus mince que l’autre. 224 CROIX CHARGÉE D’UNE CROIX . Ne pas la confondre avec bordée []
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