cercelé

English

Adjective

cercelé (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of sarcelly
   • 1682, John Gibbon, Introductio Ad Latinam Blasoniam. An Essay to a More Correct Blason in Latine Than Formerly Hath Been Used. ..., page 70:

     A Cross Cercelé (which must be the right term , the word signifying in French rounding and circling (or curling) and so is this Cross at its ends.) Leigh writes it Sarcelé, putting s for c, and a for e, as indeed sometimes the French do […] [Image depicts a cross with ends even more curled back than a cross moline.]

   • 1796, Daniel Lysons, The Environs of London: Counties of Herts, Essex & Kent (1796), page 26:

     Arms - Arg. three falcons' heads erased Sab. within a border Az. charged with eight bezants, impaling G. a cross cercelé, Or - Beake.

   • 1800, The Naval Chronicle, Containing a General and Biographical History of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, with a Variety of Original Papers on Nautical Subjects, page 38:

     Az. a cross cercelé Or, between four cross croslets fitchée Ar.

   • 1859, Richard Symonds, Diary of the Marches of the Royal Army During the Great Civil War, page 4:

     VACHELL, impaling, quarterly, 1 and 4, Azure, semée of cross-crosslets or, a cross cercelé voided : 2 and 3, Argent, on a chevron three roses gules, KNOLLYS.

   • 1910, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour, page 1318:

     Armorial bearings -- He bears for Arms : Quarterly 1 and 4, azure, a cross cercelé or (for Brune); 2 and 3 argent, a chevron sable,  […]