recurved
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English
Verb
recurved
- simple past and past participle of recurve
Adjective
recurved (comparative more recurved, superlative most recurved)
- Curved or bent, either in two different directions, or back on itself.
- 1827, William Hone, The Every-day Book: Or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastime, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs, and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in Past and Present Times..., page 355:
- We will not, however, travel on his "elephants' snouts in coat armour," beyond a field or, with "the proboscide of an elephant, erected, flexed and recurved gules, issuing out of a pierced place; towards the basis thereof, a rose-sprig vertant et revertant, about the trunk to the middle thereof proper.