biparted
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]biparted (not comparable)
- (heraldry) Cut short with an inverted V shape.
- 1847, Henry Gough, A Glossary of Terms Used in British Heraldry: With a Chronological Table, Illustrative of Its Rise and Progress, page 101:
- Cross moline sarcelled, or voided throughout, cross recercelée, or recersile, or recercelée voided or disjoined, which has also been called a cross fleury biparted. This is borne by the names of Knollys, or Knowles, and Verney. Gules, a cross moline sarcelled argent. BEC. […]
References
[edit]- 1847, Henry Gough, A Glossary of Terms Used in British Heraldry (page 239): "The term biparted (or rather couped biparted) is also used to denote a particular manner of cutting off the end of any thing, as in the figure. This, it will be observed, differs from what is called double fitched."