créquier

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English

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Etymology

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From French créquier, from Old French crekere, derived from Old French creque, creke, borrowed from Middle Dutch crieke, related to Middle High German kreke (whence German Krieche (damson plum)).

Noun

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créquier (plural créquiers)

  1. (heraldry) A highly stylized tree of seven (less commonly, five) symmetrical branches, typically also depicted fruited, typically identified in English and French heraldic works as a wild cherry or wild plum.
    • 1882, Notes and Queries, page 419:
      83, the arms of the Créquy family are the créquier gules on a field or; see the picture.
    • 1896, John Woodward, A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 335:
      Gules, a créquier argent, are the arms of LE JOSNE (now LE JEUNE) Marquis DE CONTOY. Argent , a nut tree eradicated vert, is borne by NOZIER, and NOGARET in France, and by FACCHINETTI in Italy.

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  • 1892, John Woodward, George Burnett, A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 318:
    The wild cherry tree, in French créquier, is depicted in the ancient conventional manner in the arms of the French Ducs de CRÉQUY (Plate XXIX., fig. 4; and, better, on p. 344, fig. 72). D'Azur, au créquier d'or, is the coat of ANAUT. []
  • 1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 143:
    Crequer plant, (fr. créquier) : is described as a wild plum-tree, or cherry-tree, the fruit of which bears the name of 'creques' in the patois of Picardy, and from []
  • 2009 06, Charles Norton Elvin, A Dictionary of Heraldry, Genealogical Publishing Com, →ISBN, page 37:
    Crequer plant, or Crequier. The wild plum. P. 44, f. 51. By some it is termed "seven-branched candlestick of the temple." Crequer plant of seven branches eradicated, as borne by the family of Girflet. Crequier. See Crequer.
  • 2012 April 20, Terence Wise, Medieval Heraldry, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
    The charge on his arms is a stylized wild cherry tree, in French créquier, and his arms are therefore of the type known as canting arms. Jean de Créquy was a knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece (instituted.

French

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Etymology

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From Middle French crequier, from Old French crekere, equivalent to crèque +‎ -ier.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kʁe.kje/
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Noun

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créquier m (plural créquiers)

  1. blackthorn tree (Prunus spinosa)
  2. bullace tree (Prunus domestica ssp. insititia)
  3. hence, Prunus × fruticans, a natural hybrid of the two aforementioned difficult to distinguish from the blackthorn
  4. (heraldry) a créquier, a stylized tree or thornbush resembling a chandelier

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