sarcele

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sarcele (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of sarcelly, sarcelé ((of a cross:) having its end terminate in forked tips which curl around; (of a cross:) voided and with the ends left open)
    • 1562 Legh Armory 59
      The fielde Or, a cross Sarcele Geules.
    • 1572 Bossewell Armorie II. 25 b,
      Gules, on a Crosse Sarcele D'or, fiue mollettes of the firste.
    • 1661, Morgan, Sphere of Gentry, II. 9:
      Sarcele Cross [=infra 14 Recercile].
    • 1828-40, Berry, Encycl. Her. I:
      Cross sarcele, sarcell, or sarcelle, is a cross voided, or, as it were, sawed apart.
    • 1904, Roger Dodsworth, Yorkshire Church Notes, 1619-1631, page 103:
      Gu. a cross sarcele ar.

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