fruitagée

English

Adjective

fruitagée (not comparable)

1. (heraldry, rare, of a cross, rather than a plant) Bearing fruitages.

   Coordinate terms: fructed, in fruit, fruited

   • 1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry:

     5 Cross, fruitagée. 6 Cross, catoosed. 7 Cross, double avellaney, or Cross mascle fruitagée.

   • 1830, Thomas Robson (engraver.), The British herald, or Cabinet of armorial bearings of the nobility & gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, page 14:

     Cross double fruitagée, or a mascle with four fruitages, or Cross with demi fleurs-de-lis on each side, the bottoms to avellanes, joined to the points thereof in cross. 5, fig. 19.

   • 1849, Christian Samuel Theodor Bernd, Die Hauptstücke der Wappenwissenschaft ... mit vielen Beispielen und Abbildungen erläutert, page 265:

     (R. 6, 6. c. fruitagée – the grapes proper);

See also

• frugiferent