Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Cut to a point; in heraldry, same as
fitché .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having fitches or vetches.
- adjective (Her.) Fitché.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective heraldry Alternative form of
fitché .
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Examples
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Arg, 3 flowres de lize between 6 crosse crosslets, Hillary fitchy sa. a border G.Arg. a playne crosse G.G. a playne cross arg
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter
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Semé de cross crosslets fitchy, and a lion rampant, double queue ...
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 575, November 10, 1832 Various
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An escutcheon seméof cross-crosslets is crusily, and if the cross-crosslets are fitchy it is crusily fitchy.
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Crosses can be-among other things-crosslet, potent, avellan, moline, paty, formy, fitchy or paty or formy fitchy at the foot.
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Or, hold* ing in his paws a cross crosslet fitchy.
Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical 1812
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Arms, Gules, a Hop rampant, between three ftoss crossleti fitchy.
Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical Arthur Collins , Egerton Brydges , Samuel Egerton Brydges 1812
hernesheir commented on the word fitchy
Gules, on the upper part of a bend between six crosses crosslet fitchy argent, an escutcheon or charged with a demi lion rampant, pierced through the mouth with an arrow, within a tressure flory counter flory gules -- blazoning of the arms of HOWARD, Baron Howard, Earl of Surrey.
October 6, 2011