vêtu

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See also: vetu and větu

French

...un pauvre vêtu de sinople... (...a pauper clothed vert...)
Orville : de gueules au créquier arraché d'or vêtu d'argent. (Gules, a créquier or, "vested" argent.)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French and Old French vestu.

Pronunciation

Participle

vêtu (feminine vêtue, masculine plural vêtus, feminine plural vêtues)

  1. past participle of vêtir

Adjective

vêtu (feminine vêtue, masculine plural vêtus, feminine plural vêtues)

  1. dressed
  2. (heraldry, of a person) clothed (in a specified tincture)
    • 1867, Louis Pierre d' Hozier, Armorial général des registres de la noblesse de France, résumé et précédé d'une notice sur la famille d'Hozier, ... par E. de Barthélemy, page 39:
      Armes : De gueules, à un saint Michel de carnation, vêtu d’argent à la romaine,  []
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  3. (heraldry, of a field) covered with a vêtement (four triangles of a specified tincture which cover the corner of the shield, leaving a lozenge of the field in the middle)

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