Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In heraldry, shaped like a series of dovetails, or cut at the edge in a series of dovetail or pattéprojections alternating with notches of the same shape: thus, a chief inclave projects into the field below in dovetailed projections.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Her.) Resembling a series of dovetails; -- said of a line of division, such as the border of an ordinary.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective heraldry Resembling a series of
dovetails ; said of a line of division, such as theborder of anordinary .
Etymologies
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See inclavated.
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Examples
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Unwilling to relinquish her mission, Reik found an American military transport bound for the Slovakian town of Banska Bystrica, in the inclave held by anti-German forces, to which the Yishuv parachutists were to make their way, and reached the site before her male comrades.
Havivah Reik. 2009
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