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interfretted

interfretted adjective: interlaced; linked together; said of charges or bearings.

Adjective

interfretted (not comparable)

  1. Interlaced; linked together; said of charges or bearings.
    • Crest: Two laurel branches interfretted proper.1910, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour, page 1025
    • 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.[…]1921, Herman Joseph Heuser, American Ecclesiastical Review, page 393

Origin of interfretted

From inter- + fretted.

Questions about interfretted

What does interfretted mean?
Interfretted means interlaced; linked together; said of charges or bearings.
What part of speech is interfretted?
Interfretted is an adjective.

Words near interfretted in the dictionary

  1. interfrastically
  2. interfrat
  3. interfraternal
  4. interfraternity
  5. interfret
  6. interfretted
  7. interfriction
  8. interfrictional
  9. interfringe
  10. interfrontal
  11. interfruitful

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