ˈumbrated, a. Her.
Also 7 umbreted.
[See prec. and -ed1. So F. ombré.]
Indicated or drawn in a faint or shadowy manner.
| 1486 [see umbration 1]. 1562 Legh Armory 79 He beareth On a Lion Saliaunte vmbrated. This is as muche to saye, as the shadowe of a Lion;..he is but traced with a pencell. vpon the fielde. So that the fyelde sheweth throwghe him. 1572 J. Bossewell Armorie ii. 25 This crosse so vmbrated is thus to be blazed. A. beareth Or, a crosse Moloyne Vmbre. 1610 J. Guillim Heraldry ii. iii. 42 The portraicting out of any thing umbrated, is nothing else but a sleight and single draught or purfle traced out with a pensile, expressing to the view a vacant forme of a thing deprived of all substance. 1688 Holme Armoury iv. viii. (Roxb.) 354/1 Morholt de Irland. A. Barry vmbreted ouer all a Lion rampant G. c 1828 Berry Encycl. Her. I. Gloss. s.v., A sun umbrated does not show the face as it is usually represented. |