Meaning of chapé | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A division of the field, used in French heraldry, created by drawing two lines from the centre of the upper edge of the shield towards the outer bottom edges (creating a triangle), with the tincture being applied to the two upper portions which the triangle divides.
2. The lower metallic cap at the end of a sword's scabbard.
3. The piece by which an object is attached to something, such as the frog of a scabbard or the metal loop at the back of a buckle by which it is fastened to a strap.
   archaic
4. The tip of a fox's tail.

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Examples

“The blade is 33 in. long, of triangular section, etched, gilt and blued at the hilt. The scabbard is covered with black sole-skin, with a gilt locket and chape; the locket inscribed BLAND AND FOSTER, SWORD CUTLERS[…]”

“Sword and scabbard fittings comprise the sword pommel, the chape at the end⟳ of the scabbard, the sword guard at the top of the blade, the sword slide⟳ and its accompanying reverse fitting (the latter being sometimes referred to as a girdle-clasp) that were normally bound into the scabbard[…]”

“The scabbard ended in a chape, which took two forms: sometimes it terminated in a ball, and sometimes in a crescent or fish-tail.”

“[…] the swords nevertheless do not lack the chape, the small leather piece that overlaps the crossguard in a semi-circle over the base⟳ of the blade and that is often referred to as a rain⟳ guard.”

“SABRE-BELT, ( black buff-leather.) — Length 36 to 40 inches, width 1.9 inch; 2 leather chapes sewed on the outside of the belt for attaching 2 brass loops […]”

“At the end⟳ of each point⟳ a buckle is attached by means of a leather chape, and it is to these buckles that the two […]”

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