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English
Verb
shadowed
- simple past and past participle of shadow
Adjective
shadowed (not comparable)
- (heraldry) Depicted with shading, as if showing areas in shadow.
1722, Alexander Nisbet, A System of Heraldry Speculative and Practical, page 394:[...] 2d and 3d Gules, a Man's Heart proper, Shadowed Or, betwixt three Cinquefoils Ermine, for Hamilton […]
1862, Thomas Tonge, Heraldic Visitation of the Northern Counties in 1530, page 27:The supporters have rede collares about there nekes "bordered with gold, and are vert" shadowed gules and blew, proper, like parates.
1895, The Nineteenth Century, page 872:Consequently, a month later, by the Maid's desire, the King gave to Guy de Cailly a grant of new arms on a field azure, three heads of cherubim, winged, bearded in flame-colour, which is or shadowed with gules.
1910, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour, page 116:Armorial bearings (L.O., 1678-9) Quarterly 1 and 4, gules a mullet argent between three cinquefoils ermine; 2 and 3 gules, a man's heart proper shadowed or, between three cinquefoils ermine, all within a bordure argent […]