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fusilly

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Searchable Lemmata: fusilé (AF), fusile (ME), fusilly (MdE).
Alternate Forms: fuselé, fesele, fusillis.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(psp.) Decoration; (heraldic) decorated with fusils (lozenges). See also the compound phrase faisse fusilé.(ante 1340 still in current use)
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]
2. [235] ... iij crosse croslettys bottone of sabyll ... [240] ... ij fecys fesele of sabyll ... [243] ... [Sable a lion silver with an orle of] synkefoyles of sylvyr ... Other. [MED Bk.Arms in Anc.4 ((Hrl 2169) 235-243) circa 1460]
c.f.: fusil, faisse fusilé, mascle, mascled, lozenge, lozengy
AF, ME, MdE; Primarily Other.
Sex: N/A    Use: n/a    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: Yes
Body Parts: N/A.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, OF ppl. fuselé / AF fusilé.
WF: Derivation
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