pellety

English

The griffin supporting the arms of the City and Guilds of London Institute is pellety.

Etymology

pellet +‎ -y

Adjective

pellety (comparative more pellety, superlative most pellety)

1. Having a consistency like pellets.
2. Full of pellets.
   • 1963, George MacBeth, Owl:

     Round beaks are at / work in the pellety nest, / working. Owl is an eye / in the barn.

3. (heraldry, not comparable) Semé (strewn) with pellets (roundels sable).
   • 1933, James Thomas Herbert Baily, The Connoisseur:

     : -gules, a hind trippant or between three pheons or, within a bordure engrailed argent pellety. The printed version of Glover , which is frequently incorrect and is, incidentally, responsible for the use of many false […]

   • 1998, Joan Corder, John Blatchly, A Dictionary of Suffolk Crests: Heraldic Crests of Suffolk Families, Boydell & Brewer, →ISBN, page 319:

     A dragon's head erased Or pellety eared and langued Gules.

Alternative forms

• pelletty

See also

	metals		main colours				less common colours
tincture	or	argent	gules	azure	sable	vert	purpure	tenné	orange	sanguine
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roundel (in parentheses: semé):	bezant (bezanty)	plate (platy)	torteau (tortelly)	hurt (hurty)	pellet (pellety), ogress	pomme	golpe (golpy)	orange (semé of oranges)		guze (semé of guzes)
goutte (noun) / gutty (adj) thereof:	(goutte / gutty) d'or (of gold)	d'eau (of water)	de sang (of blood)	de larmes (of tears)	de poix (of pitch)	d'huile / d'olive (olive oil)
	special roundel	furs								additional, uncommon tinctures:
tincture	fountain, syke: barry wavy argent and azure	ermine	ermines, counter-ermine	erminois	pean	vair	counter-vair	potent	counter-potent	bleu celeste, brunâtre, carnation, cendrée (iron, steel, acier), copper, murrey
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