| 单词 | plumetty |
| 释义 | plumetty, a. and n. Her.|ˈpluːmɪtɪ|
Also 5 plomte; plumeté.
[ad. F. plumeté: see plumetis.]
(A heraldic device) with a motif of feathers (see quots.).
a1500in Ancestor (1903) Oct. 193 Gold and purpull plomte. 1780J. Edmondson Compl. Body Heraldry II. Gloss., Plumetty. When the field is divided into fusils, filled with the ends of feathers, depicted in metal and colour alternately, such field is said to be Plumetty. 1892Woodward & Burnett Treat. Heraldry I. iii. 71 Two curious forms of Vair occasionally met with in Italian or French coats are known as ‘Plumeté’ and ‘Papelonné’. Ibid. 72 In Plumeté the field is apparently covered with feathers. 1929N. & Q. 2 Nov. 317/2 ‘Papelonny’..and its analogue, ‘plumetty’,..are represented in English heraldry. Homologous in their tricking, the diapering of the one takes the form of fish scales; of the other, of the breasts of birds. 1969Franklyn & Tanner Encycl. Dict. Heraldry 261/2 Plumetty, a field..of feathers.., a form that did not survive, and of which the few examples preserved from the feudal period contradict each other in appearance: one form is semé..of feathers; another consists of barwise rows of feathers conjoined laterally; yet a third displays a field totally covered with overlapping feathers. |
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