counterchanged, ppl. a.
(ˌkaʊntəˈtʃeɪndʒd)
Also 6 conter-, contre-.
[f. as prec. + -ed.]
Her. Of a charge (on a field of two tinctures): Having the tinctures of the field reversed; transmuted.
| c 1500 Sc. Poem Heraldry 132 in Q. Eliz. Acad. etc. 38 The xij copy conter changit. 1572 J. Bossewell Armorie ii. 29 b, Sable and Argente parted per Fesse Nebule, two Faucons volante, and a Greyhounde cursante, contre⁓changed of the fielde. 1708 J. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. i. ii. v. (1743) 58 The Arms of the Princes of Wales..bear, quarterly, gules and or, four Lions passant guardant counter-changed. 1864 Boutell Heraldry Hist. & Pop. xv. (ed. 3) 182. |
b. transf. (In quot. 1648 = chequered).
| 1648 Herrick Hesper., ‘Life is the Bodies Light’, 3 Those counter-changed tabbies in the ayre, The sun once set, all of one colour are. 1861 Neale Notes Eccl. 128 A dress of red or green moreen..open in front, bound round the neck and arms with counter-changed green or red cloth. |