‖ semée, a. and n. Her.
(ˈsɛmiː, ‖ səme)
Forms: 6 semie, 6–7 semi, 7 seme, semy, 8–9 semé, 8– semée.
[a. F. semée fem. of semé, pa. pple. of semer to sow.]
A. adj. = powdered ppl. a. 3. † Also in AF. phrases, semi de crosses, semi de luces = Semée of crosses, of lilies.
| 1562 Legh Armory 63 b, He bereth Geules, semi de crosses flourte, Or. If there were but vii, and that the half of some of them, were out of the fielde..yet it sholde be called Semi. 1586 J. Ferne Blaz. Gentrie i. 194 The chief: which is Or:..semie of teares, which is signified heere, by this colour of Azure. 1611 Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xii. §51 The golden Lillies of France, which now are borne in triangle, were in those dayes born, and aduanced Semi. 1641 Baker Chron., Hen. V 47 First therefore he begins to alter in his Arms the bearing of Semy-de-Luces, and quarters the three Flower Deluces, as the Kings of France then bare them. a 1700 Evelyn Diary 7 Sept. 1651, Heralds in blew velvet semèe with fleurs de lys. 1718 A. Nisbet Ess. Armories Index Terms, Semee, that is sown when many small Figures are irregularly disposed in a Field. 1823 Rutter Fonthill Introd. 22 Morville, Azure, Semée of Fleurs de Lys, and fretty, Or. 1873 F. B. Palliser tr. Jacquemart's Ceramic Art 51 Blue ground semé with red and lilac splashes. |
B. n. = powdering 3 b.
In recent Dicts.; in quot. perh. adj. with plural ending.
| 1562 Legh Armory 50 Geules, a playne crosse, Frette Azure, As ye haue this Frette: So shall you haue some Diaper & some Semies, of dyuers thynges, that I can not speake of here. |