sarcelled
sarcelled adjective: sarcelly, having curled ends (compare moline).
Adjective
sarcelled (not comparable)
- Sarcelly, having curled ends (compare moline).
- Cross, quarterly, quartered, couped, ends sarcelled and reverted.1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica, Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry, page 9
- Cut through the middle, or voided with the ends left open (unconnected).
- Cross pattée sarcelled at bottom in the form of a ᴧ reversed.1828-40, Berry, Encycl. Her. I"
- Cross moline sarcelled, or voided throughout, cross recercelée, or recersile, or recercelée voided or disjoined, which has also been called a cross fleury biparted. This is borne by the names of Knollys, or Knowles, and Verney. Gules, a cross moline sarcelled argent. BEC. […]1847, Henry Gough, A Glossary of Terms Used in British Heraldry: With a Chronological Table, Illustrative of Its Rise and Progress, page 101
Synonyms of sarcelled
Origin of sarcelled
From Old French cercel, from Latin circellus, diminutive of circulus (“circle”).
Questions about sarcelled
- What does sarcelled mean?
- Sarcelled means sarcelly, having curled ends (compare moline).
- What part of speech is sarcelled?
- Sarcelled is an adjective.
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