recercelée

English

Adjective

recercelée (not comparable)

1. (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.