cleché

Adjective

cleché (not comparable)

1. Having ends which flare out (like a cross patté) before tapering back to a point (urdé).
   • Argent, a cross clechée sable — Sir Thomas BANASTER, K.G., ob. 2° Ric. II. (as depicted upon his stall-plate at Windsor, elsewhere blazoned, Argent, a cross patty pointed sable).
     Or, on a mount between two lesser ones vert a lamb sable, holding with the dexter forefoot a banner ermine charged with...1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 162
   • […] and of a cross cleché voided and pometté as in the arms of Cawston (Fig. 162).1904, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, The Art of Heraldry: An Encyclopaedia of Armory, London: T.C.; & E.C. Jack, page 86
2. Charged with another bearing of the same figure and of the colour of the field so that only a narrow border of the first bearing remains visible; voided.
   • […] our miniatures of c. 1375 or after, namely, the Christ Enthroned of the Fitzwarin Psalter. The background 'prints' formed in the interspaces crosses clechy (i.e. of mascles). This point is interesting if it is considered in relation to the mascles[…]1955, Ernest William Tristram, English Wall Painting of the Fourteenth Century, page 44
   • Cross cléchée (voided Greek cross formed of four sans-serif L's by closing ends. Three roundels (2 + 1) end each arm. Lys in each angle. PIECE-DE-XXX (pellet, on Lyon coins; engraver's différent, on Metz) DENIERS- Individual punches for all elements; dentilated borders.1976, Eric P. Newman, Studies on Money in Early America, page 54