1896, John Woodward, A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 40:
By the Princes de CONDÉ the bendlet was diminished into a baton alesé in bend (the Princes de CONTI added also a[…])
1971, Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archeological Society:
Azure 3 fleurs de lis or charged with a baton alezé in bend gules.
Further reading
Henry Gough, James Parker (1894) A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 141: “[...] couped is sometimes applied to the extremities of ordinaries, but they are more often said to be humetté or alesé.”
