Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as componé.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Her.) Divided into squares of alternate tinctures in a single row; -- said of any bearing; or, in the case of a bearing having curved lines, divided into patches of alternate colors following the curve. If there are two rows it is called counter-compony.

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  • adjective heraldry Divided into a line of squares of alternating tinctures

Etymologies

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French componé

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  • (adj): in Heraldry, a border in which sections of metal and color alternate.

    January 18, 2009