Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In heraldry, represented alone and affronté: said of the head of a stag or roebuck when no part of the neck is seen. Also cabossed, cabaged.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective heraldry of an animal, shown face-on and cut off immediately behind the ears

Etymologies

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From French caboché, past participle of cabocher, from caboche ‘head’.

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Examples

  • In the centre are the arms and crest of Shakespeare, and on an escutcheon of pretence three stags 'heads caboshed.

    Shakespeare's Family 1885

  • I'm sorry the project got caboshed half way through.

    unknown title 2009

  • I'm sorry the project got caboshed half way through.

    unknown title 2009

  • I'm sorry the project got caboshed half way through.

    unknown title 2009

  • Quarterly.l. Sable, three harts heads caboshed, Argent« attired.

    Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical 1812

  • a chevron between three ravens 'heads erased azure, a pellet between 4 cross-crosslets sable, for Nash; 2 and 3 sable a buck's head caboshed argent attired or, between his horns a cross patée, and across his mouth an arrow, Bulstrode.

    Shakespeare's Family 1885

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