à bouche

See also: abouche and abouché

English

Sculpture of the arms of Henry VII on a jousting shield à bouche.

Etymology

Borrowed from French à bouche (“with mouth”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɑˈbuʃ/

Adjective

à bouche (not comparable)

1. (heraldry) Having a bouche on the dexter side.
   • 1903, Marion Harry Spielmann, The Magazine of Art, page 351:

     Dish, ornamented with blue and yellow flowers and foliage; in the centre a shield à bouche : Per fess or and azure, four chains conjoined in saltire by an annulet, all counterchanged.

   • 1904, Albert Van de Put, Hispano-Moresque Ware of the XV. Century: A Contribution to Its History and Chronology Based Upon Armorial Specimens, page 68:

     Upon a shield à bouche, scalloped at the base , are the arms : Azure two pallets argent, on a chief a lion's jamb erased in fesse azure, for ARRIGHI.