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COUNTEREMBATTLED Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of COUNTEREMBATTLED is embattled on opposite sides with the battlement or merlon on one side opposed to the embrasure on the other.
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counterembattled - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
counterembattled (not comparable). (heraldry) Having a lower edge or outline of alternating square indentations and extensions like battlements.
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Line (heraldry) - Wikipedia
If both edges are to be embattled, the term embattled-counter-embattled (or counter-embattled, as in the arms of Sir Cecil Denniston Burney) is used. In ...
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counter-embattled
ˌcounter-emˈbattled, ppl. a. Her. [counter- 14.] Said of an ordinary: Embattled on opposite sides.1863 Boutell Man. Heraldry 77 Brettessée, counter⁓embattled, having Battlements facing both ways. 1882 Cussans Her. iv. (ed. 3) 64 When a Fess, Bend, or Chevron, is bounded on each side by the lines emb...
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Embattled - Traceable Heraldic Art
Embattled is a complex line resembling crenellations atop a castle wall, and can be on a two-sided charge.
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counter-embattled, adj. meanings, etymology and more
There is one meaning in OED's entry for the adjective counter-embattled. See 'Meaning & use' for definition, usage, and quotation evidence. Entry status. OED is ...
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counter-battled
† ˌcounter-ˈbattled, ppl. a. Obs. Her. In 6 contrebatiled. = counter-embattled.1572 J. Bossewell Armorie ii. 122 Hee beareth azure, two barres embatiled, contrebatiled d'Ermine.
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Embattled | DrawShield
If the ordinary is crenellated on both sides it may be said to be embattled counter embattled, and this is properly used only when the crenelles on one side are ...
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The Language of Blazon | The Heraldry Society
A piece in bend, bend sinister or horizontal usually has only its top edge embattled but if it is embattled also on its lower edge it is “embattled counter ...
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Heraldic Crenelations - Coblaith Muimnech' Homesite
Crenelations are raised blocks with lower areas, used in heraldry. "Embattled" describes a line with crenelations, and "embattled counter-embattled" is ...
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Counter-embattled. World English Historical Dictionary
Counter-embattled. ppl. a. Her. [COUNTER- 14.] Said of an ordinary: Embattled on opposite sides. 1. 1863. Boutell, Man. Heraldry, 77. Brettessée, counter ...
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embattled - Modar University
fess embattled, fess bretessed, fess embattled counter-embattled. no bottom embattlement, embattlements are opposite other side, embattlements are
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Webbery, Alverdiscott
Pole (d.1635) gives them as: Argent, a fess embattled counter-embattled sable between three caterfoils gules, yet many 19th century sources give them as
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Line (heraldry)
If both edges are to be embattled, the term embattled-counter-embattled (or counter-embattled, as in the arms of Sir Cecil Denniston Burney) is used.
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counter-
ˈcounter- prefix:—ME. and AF. countre-, a. F. contre- (= Pr. It. contra-):—L. contrā adv. and prefix (see contra-) against, in return. The form in which the Lat. prefix has come down through Fr. into Eng. Used in words actually adopted from earlier F., as counterbalance, counterchange, counterfeit, ...
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