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faisse fusilé

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Searchable Lemmata: fusilé (AF).
Alternate Forms: fes fuselé.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Decoration; in heraldic design, a pattern of fusils/lozenges conjoined in fess.(circa 1334 ?)
1. Le seignur de Beaumont port les armes le Roy de France a un lion rampant d’or et un baston goboné de sys d’argent ... Le seignur de Mountagu port d'argent a un fes fuselé de goules de trois peces ...(citations from individual page of text may not appear in original order) [AND Ashmole Roll (m 1) circa 1334]
c.f.: fusilly
AF; Primarily Accounts.
Sex: N/A    Use: n/a    Ceremonial: Yes
Body Parts: N/A.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, Fesse (2, 1b) + the AF past participle-as-adjective fusilé (from fusil, 1b: see fusilly).
WF: Derivation
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