Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
nebulé .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Her. & Arch.) A line or a decoration composed of successive short curves or waves supposed to resemble a cloud. See
nébulé
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective heraldry Edged in a deeply
wavy line, intended to represent clouds.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Joliffe was never tired of explaining that this last had an emerald -- "A very large emerald, my dear, surrounded by diamonds, green and white being the colours of his lordship's shield, what they call the nebuly coat, you know."
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SHIELD: Per fess nebuly abased azure and argent, in chief a thunderbolt or inflamed proper.
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Only an experienced needlewoman could do justice in words to such a variety of rimplings and crinklings, of pleatings and puckerings, of gaugings, rufflings, gofferings, and pin-tuckings as it is possible to find; though somebody with a knowledge of heraldry could perhaps convey a few of the designs in such terms as nebuly, raguly or dancetty (semée, he might add, of starfish proper).
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These all related to marriages of the Blandamer family, for Van Linge had filled the window with glass to the order of the third Lord Blandamer, and the sea-green and silver of the nebuly coat was many times repeated, beside figuring in chief at the head of the window.
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Blandamer window, where in the centre of the infinite multiplication of the tracery shone the sea-green and silver of the nebuly coat.
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The nebuly coat shone on the panel of the carriage-door.
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The moonlight that shone on the dead face seemed to fall on it through that brighter spot in the head of the middle light; it was as if the nebuly coat had blighted the very life out of the man who lay so still upon the floor.
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And in the midst, in the head of the centre light, shone out brighter than all, with an inherent radiance of its own, the cognisance of the Blandamers, the sea-green and silver of the nebuly coat.
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"Yes, it's sad enough," the organist resumed; "all these papers are nebuly coat -- the sea-green and silver."
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Westray, saying she believed that they both were going to embark on the quest of the nebuly coat.
sionnach commented on the word nebuly
heraldic pattern:
nebuly
November 3, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word nebuly
*pillaged*
November 4, 2007