vergette

See also: Vergette

English

Etymology

From French.

Noun

vergette (plural vergettes)

1. (heraldry) A small pale.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “vergette”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

French

Etymology

From verge (“rod”) +‎ -ette, from Latin virga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɛʁ.ʒɛt/

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Noun

vergette f (plural vergettes)

1. (literally) a small (wooden) rod
2. a clothes-brush
3. (heraldry) a pale at least fivefold thinner than usual

Derived terms

• vergeté
• vergetier

Related terms

• vergé
• vergée
• verger
• vergeture

Further reading

• “vergette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.