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treflée

treflée adjective: trefoiled, trefly.

Adjective

treflée (not comparable)

  1. Trefoiled, trefly.
    • Gaddi: Azure, a cross treflée or.1901, Howel Wills, Florentine Heraldry: A Supplement to the Guide-books, page 118
    • 3. ALBERT EDWARD PRINCE OF WALES. The Royal arms as above, differenced with a label of three points argent, over all, barry of ten or and sable a bend treflée vert (Saxony).1921, Edward Alfred Webb, The Records of St. Bartholomew's Priory and of the Church and Parish of St. Bartholomew's the Great: West Smithfield, page 478

Origin of treflée

Borrowed from French tréflé(e). See trefoil. Doublet of trifoliate.

Questions about treflée

What does treflée mean?
Treflée means trefoiled, trefly.
What part of speech is treflée?
Treflée is an adjective.

Words near treflée in the dictionary

  1. trefgordds
  2. Trefil
  3. trefled
  4. trefly
  5. Treflys
  6. treflée
  7. Trefnant
  8. trefoil
  9. trefoil knot
  10. trefoil knots
  11. trefoiled

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