1961, Julian Franklyn, Shield and Crest: An Account of the Art and Science of Heraldry:
[...] a Corinthian column argent, crowned Or, for Romhild; X, per fess argent and azure semé of sparks (estenzele), a lion rampant, crowned Or, all counterchanged[…]
1963, Julian Franklyn, Shield and Crest: An Account of the Art and Science of Heraldry:
[...] of annulets, annulletty; sparks make estenzele, or etincele; and gouttae, gutty or gouttée. (This last is chiefly dependent on semé for its place in English heraldry.) Some other condensed forms of semé will emerge later.)
2009, Thomas Daniel Tremlett, Hugh Stanford London, Rolls of Arms, Henry III.:
Hitherto it has been supposed that C's blazon was meant for the patriarchal cross though the tincturing is abnormal and no other instance has been found where the field is étincelé. ... (Wagner, Historic Heraldry, pp. 42,56.)[…]
2015 October 8, Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly, Diaboliques: Six Tales of Decadence, U of Minnesota Press, →ISBN:
Her blue-green eyes (for the Countess showed sinople, étincelé d'or in her gaze as well as on her coat of arms) crowned her face like two fixed stars, though without warming it. Those two emeralds with their yellow glints,[…]
1815, Nicolas Viton de Saint-Allais, Nobiliaire universel de France ou Recueil général des généalogies historiques des maisons nobles de ce royaume, page 51:
ANSEVILLE : d’argent, à une bande d’azur étincelée d’or.
1885, Joseph Denais, Armorial général de l'Anjou: d'après les titres et les manuscrits de la Bibliothèque nationale, des bibliothèques d'Angers, d'Orléans, de La Flèche, etc., les monuments anciens, les tableaux, les tombeaux, les vitraux, les sceaux, les médailles, les archives, etc, page 10:
198603, James Frederick Mason, Hélène Harvitt, The French Review:
... tout diapré, tout estincelé de bubeletes; pullulant, purpré, à pompettes, tout esmaillé, tout boutonné et ...
1864, Weston Styleman Walford, Charles Spencer Perceval, Three Rolls of Arms of the Latter Part of the Thirteenth Century: Together with an Index of Names and an Alphabetical Ordinary of the Coats, page 8:
Le Roy de Hungrey, d'or estenzele a deux passans d'azure.
