Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In heraldry, decorated with buds, knobs, or buttons at the extremities, generally in groups of three, forming trefoils. Also called bottoned, botoned, and sometimes
trefoiled or treffled. Seecross .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Her.) Having a bud or button, or a kind of trefoil, at the end; furnished with knobs or buttons.
- adjective (Her.) a cross having each arm terminating in three rounded lobes, forming a sort of trefoil.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective heraldry Having a bud-like projection or a kind of
trefoil at the end.
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From French boutonné; from boutonner ("to bud, button")
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Examples
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138 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. heads coupt sable for Howe, impaled with, per pale sable and gules, a CTOss bottony Jitchy betiveen three Jleurs-de-lis or, for Kich.
Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812
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