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trangle

trangle noun: one of the (rarely used) diminutives of the fess (bar) or chief, a fillet or closet.

trangle: one of the (rarely used) diminutives of the fess (bar) or chief, a fillet or closet
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Noun

trangle (plural trangles)

  1. (rare) One of the (rarely used) diminutives of the fess (bar) or chief, a fillet or closet.
    • Bendy of fix Gules and Argent; on a Chief of the last, a Rose of the first, supported by a Trangle (the Diminutive of a Barr. A Fillet , with the English, for the Diminutive of a Chief, of which before) Or, charged with a[…]1722, Alexander Nisbet, A System of Heraldry Speculative and Practical, page 73
    • The quartered arms of the See were usually arranged in an oval escucheon I. Gules, […] an eagle sable, crowned with an antique crown and supported by a trangle held in its claws, is brochant over the stem of the tree.1894, John Woodward, A Treatise on Ecclesiastical Heraldry, page 298

Forms of trangle

pluraltrangles

Origin of trangle

From or related to French trangle.

Questions about trangle

What does trangle mean?
Trangle means one of the (rarely used) diminutives of the fess (bar) or chief, a fillet or closet.
What part of speech is trangle?
Trangle is a noun.
What is the plural of trangle?
The plural of trangle is trangles.

Words near trangle in the dictionary

  1. Trang
  2. trangam
  3. trangams
  4. trangenic
  5. Trangie
  6. trangle
  7. trangles
  8. trangram
  9. trangrams
  10. Trangue
  11. tranilast

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