à bouche

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See also: abouche and abouché

English

Sculpture of the arms of Henry VII on a jousting shield à bouche.

Etymology

Borrowed from French à bouche (with mouth).

Pronunciation

Adjective

à bouche (not comparable)

  1. (heraldry) Having a bouche on the dexter side.[1]
    • 1903, Marion Harry Spielmann, The Magazine of Art, page 351:
      Dish, ornamented with blue and yellow flowers and foliage; in the centre a shield à bouche : Per fess or and azure, four chains conjoined in saltire by an annulet, all counterchanged.
    • 1904, Albert Van de Put, Hispano-Moresque Ware of the XV. Century: A Contribution to Its History and Chronology Based Upon Armorial Specimens, page 68:
      Upon a shield à bouche, scalloped at the base , are the arms : Azure two pallets argent, on a chief a lion's jamb erased in fesse azure, for ARRIGHI.

References

  1. ^ Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 , →ISBN), page 5