Meaning of cléché | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Having ends which flare out (like a cross patté) before tapering back to a point (urdé).
   not-comparable
2. Charged with another bearing of the same figure and of the colour of the field so that only a narrow border of the first bearing remains visible; voided.
   not-comparable

Equivalents

Examples

“Argent, a cross clechée sable — Sir Thomas BANASTER, K.G., ob. 2° Ric. II. (as depicted upon his stall-plate at Windsor, elsewhere blazoned, Argent, a cross patty pointed sable). Or, on a mount between two lesser ones vert a lamb sable, holding with the dexter forefoot a banner ermine charged with a cross clechée gules—GROSE, Surrey (1756).”

“[…] and of a cross cleché voided and pometté as in the arms of Cawston (Fig. 162).”

“Cross OF TOULOUSE (cross clechy, voided and botonny)”

“(10) — patee : cross clechy, i.e. with the ends of the arms pointed, […]”

“[…] our miniatures of c. 1375 or after, namely, the Christ Enthroned of the Fitzwarin Psalter. The background 'prints' formed in the interspaces crosses clechy (i.e. of mascles). This point is interesting if it is considered in relation to the mascles[…]”

“Cross cléchée (voided Greek cross formed of four sans-serif L's by closing ends. Three roundels (2 + 1) end each arm. Lys in each angle. PIECE-DE-XXX (pellet, on Lyon coins; engraver's différent, on Metz) DENIERS- Individual punches for all elements; dentilated borders.”

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