ancré

See also: ancre

English

Adjective

ancré (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of ancrée
   • 1962, Thomas Baty, Julian Franklyn, Vital Heraldry, Edinburgh : The Armorial, page 33:

     Still more singular blazonry is found in the coat assumed by Saint Aidaus College at Birkenhead, which uses Columbia (dove-grey) a passion-cross ancré gules : on a chief sable a ducal coronet Or: all within a border of the last, […]

   • 1907, Richard Henry Greene, Henry Reed Stiles, Melatiah Everett Dwight, George Austin Morrison, Hopper Striker Mott, John Reynolds Totten, Harold Minot Pitman, Charles Andrew Ditmas, Louis Effingham De Forest, Conklin Mann, Arthur S. Maynard, The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, page 299:

     De Heer Kilieen Van Rensselaer was Lord of Rensselaerwyck befor 1637. […] Arms : 1st gules, a cross ancré argent : 2nd argent, a fesse embattled, voided, sable : 3d argent, three antique crosses, azure : 4th or three cheveronals sable. Motto : "Niemand Zondes." Siegneurial Coronet.

French

Pronunciation

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Participle

ancré (feminine ancrée, masculine plural ancrés, feminine plural ancrées)

1. past participle of ancrer

Adjective

ancré (feminine ancrée, masculine plural ancrés, feminine plural ancrées)

1. anchoring, fixing

Further reading

• “ancré”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• cerna, crâne, écran, encra, nacre, rance