recercelée
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recercelée (not comparable)
- (heraldry) Synonym of sarcelly
- 1828, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, A Roll of Arms of Peers and Knights in the Reign of Edward the Second, page 163:
- Azure, a cross recercelée and voided or; a baton gules ....... Sire William de Basinges.
- 1867, Charles Boutell, English Heraldry, page 56:
- Gu., a Cross recercelée erm., […]
- 1894, The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, page 620:
- The cross recercelée has the ends split and curled outwards, but differs from the cross moline in having them pointed.
- 1898, The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature: New Maps and Many Original American Articles by Eminent Authors. With New American Supplement, page 696:
- The cross recercelée has the ends split and curled outwards, but differs from the cross moline […] The cross recercelée is usually also voided. […] Basing, temp. Edward III.: azure, a cross recercelée and voided or.