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A quarterly coat of arms (Hohenzollern)

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quarter +‎ -ly

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quarterly (not comparable)

  1. Occurring once every quarter year (three months).
    quarterly rent payments
  2. (heraldry) (of a coat of arms) Divided into four parts crosswise.
    The arms of Hohenzollern is quarterly argent and sable.

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quarterly (not comparable)

  1. Once every quarter year (three months).
  2. (heraldry) In the four, or in two diagonally opposite, quarters of a shield.
    • 1950 June, Michael Robbins, “Heraldry of London Underground Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 380:
      It consisted of the arms of the City of London, Middlesex (three seaxes, or Saxon swords), Buckingham (a swan), and Hertford (a hart), arranged quarterly, on a background of crimson and ermine mantling [] .

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quarterly (plural quarterlies)

  1. A periodical publication that appears four times per year.

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