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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