Citations:en abyme

English citations of en abyme

in the abyss, that is, the centre of a heraldic shield

• 1858, Archaeologia Cambrensis, page 409:

  XIII. - Johannes II., Floyd, armiger, nupsit Jane filiam David Floyd, armigeri. - She bore, - Sable, 3 horses argent, 2 and 1, a fleur-de-lis of the same at the base (en abyme), on a chief gules a tower of the second.

• 1998, The Thomas Hardy Year Book:

  ... of "colour and shape" is marked in that titular field argent (silver or white) per fess gules: "She wore a red ... she is also universally representative since her external différence en abyme (or synedochic inescutcheoning) […]

• 2011, Anne Curry, Andy King, David Simpkin, The Soldier Experience in the Fourteenth Century, Boydell & Brewer Ltd, →ISBN, page 172:

  Arms: Or, a shield en abyme gules, eight martlets in orle of the same (Potier de Courcy, i, 393). Gouyon, Louis/Thibault (c.1325–after 1351), lord of Launay en Ploubalay (22, St-Malo diocese). Ancestry from Étienne Gouyon, […]