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Citations:pometty

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English citations of pometty

  • 1900, British Museum. Department of Manuscripts, Walter de Gray Birch, Catalogue of Seals in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, page 580:
    A shield of arms : three lozenges pometty, VAN VLIET, of Holland. Within a quatrefoil panel of tracery.
  • 1903, Montgomery Carmichael, In Tuscany: Tuscan Towns, Tuscan Types and the Tuscan Tongue, page 31:
    ... begged him to call upon me regularly when he came over to the “big city.” I found the grave for myself, a mound of earth with the grass not yet well grown upon it, and at the head of it a wooden cross pometty,
  • 1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica, Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry: Dictionary of Heraldry:
    Fesse nowy, by some authors called a fesse bottony, or pometty, has but one semicircular projection []
  • 1846, British Archaeological Association, Journal of the British Archaeological Association, page 32:
    The armorial bearings generally assigned to him by the heralds are gules, a chief argent, over all an escarbuncle of eight rays pometty and flowery or, "which coat,” says Sandford, “is set up for Earl Geoffrey []"
  • 1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 174:
    We find pomy, and very frequently pometty (fr. pommettée), and some heralds contend that the latter means something different, i.e. that there are two knobs terminating the arms of the cross; others say that it means a cross with []