vêtement

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French

Orville : de gueules au créquier arraché d'or vêtu d'argent. (Gules, a créquier or, "vested" argent.)

Etymology

Inherited from Old French vestement, from Latin vestīmentum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vɛt.mɑ̃/
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Noun

vêtement m (plural vêtements)

  1. garment, item of clothing
  2. (in the plural) clothes, clothing
    Synonym: fringue
  3. (heraldry) a set of four triangles covering the corners of the shield, leaving a lozenge of the field (the edges of which reach the edges of the shield) in the middle (compare vêtu)
    • 1892, Pierre-Barthélemy Gheusi, Le blason héraldique: manuel nouveau de l'art héraldique de la science du blason et de la polychromie féodale d'après les règles du Moyen Age, page 45:
      SCHWERIN De gueules, au vêtement d’argent. []
      SCHWERIN Gules vêtu argent.

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