urdé

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English

A line urdé. (Per fess urdé, argent and gules.)

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Etymology

Possibly from a misreading of French [croix] vidée (reduced ), in croix aiguisée et vidée, a cross pointed and reduced or voided.

Alternatively, from Anglo-Norman urdee, ordé (pointed), ultimately from Frankish *ord (point), from Proto-Germanic *uzdaz (point). More at English ord.

Adjective

urdé (not comparable)

  1. (heraldry) Pointed, as a cross, or having a point projected, as a bend; varriated.
    Synonym: aiguisé
    • 1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica or a Dictionary of Arts and Sciences :
      A cross urdé seems to be the same with what we otherwise call chleche, or chlechée. See CHLECHE.
    • 1891, Surrey Archaeological Society, Surrey Archaeological Collections: Relating to the History and Antiquities of the County, page 344:
      The sacred monogram is engraved on the bowl, the top of the letter I forming a cross urdé.
    • 1915, The Autocar:
      Badge : A Cross-urdé resting on wreath of laurels and oak banded gold.
    • 1919, Henry Taprell Dorling, Ribbons and Medals: Part 1-2, page 37:
      The decoration consists of a cross urdé enamelled white with gold edges, resting on a wreath of laurel and oak enamelled green . In the centre, edged with gold, is a circular plaque enamelled crimson bearing the cypher  []
    • 1923, Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, A Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, page 301:
      In heraldry, as many as 285 varieties of cross have been recognized, but the twelve in ordinary use, and from which the others are derived, are: (1) The ordinary cross; (2) the cross humetté, or couped; (3) the cross urdé []

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