interfretted

English

Etymology

From inter- +‎ fretted.

Adjective

interfretted (not comparable)

1. (heraldry) Interlaced; linked together; said of charges or bearings.
   • 1910, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour, page 1025:

     Crest: Two laurel branches interfretted proper.

   • 1921, Herman Joseph Heuser, American Ecclesiastical Review, page 393:

     Ermine, a Paternoster having the upper limb of the crucifix bent to dexter, gold, and interfretted with three bendlets gules, all between two dragons' heads erased sable, jessant-de-lys, or. […]

“interfretted”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.