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chevrony

chevrony is the alternative form of chevronny.

Meaning of chevronny

Adjective

chevronny (not comparable)

  1. Having chevrons, especially (heraldry) charged with chevrons.
    • CHEVRONNE, or Chevronny, ſignifies the dividing of the ſhield ſeveral times chevron-wiſe.1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., volume II, page 183
  2. Chevron-shaped, zigzag, especially (heraldry) chevronwise.

Questions about chevrony

What is chevrony the alternative form of?
Chevrony is the alternative form of chevronny.

Words near chevrony in the dictionary

  1. chevronly
  2. chevronny
  3. chevronné
  4. chevrons
  5. chevronwise
  6. chevrony
  7. chevroné
  8. chevrotain
  9. chevrotains
  10. chevrotin
  11. chevrotins

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chevrony (page history and authors); chevronny (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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