varriated
varriated adjective: cut in the form of vair; battlemented with solid projections and crenelles, both pointed, but in the latter case reversed.
Adjective
varriated (not comparable)
- Cut in the form of vair; battlemented with solid projections and crenelles, both pointed, but in the latter case reversed.
- Urdée, in point, or contrary urdée, termed also varriated, point in point. See Plate XLIX. No. 2, fig. 32, viz. barry of six, contrary urdée; by some blazoned, barry of six, champion—barry of six, per pale, varriated, point in point—1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica: Or, Complete Dictionary of Heraldry
- Variated—[See VARRIATED.] […]Varriated—(var'-ri-ated) A bearing cut in the form of vair; as, a bend varriated on the outsides.1908, Arthur Francis Pimbley, Pimbley's Dictionary of Heraldry: Together with an Illustrated Supplement, page 66
Forms of varriated
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Origin of varriated
Later (1828) variant of variated, from Latin variatus, past participle of variare.
Questions about varriated
- What does varriated mean?
- Varriated means cut in the form of vair; battlemented with solid projections and crenelles, both pointed, but in the latter case reversed.
- What part of speech is varriated?
- Varriated is an adjective.
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