Citations:orange

English citations of orange

• 1832, The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, page 333:

  […] with any of the four last mentioned roundles, we say, semé of torteauxes, semé of golpes, semé of oranges, and semé of guzes. Foreigners have no more than two specific names for all these round figures.

• 1845, Edward Smedley, Hugh James Rose, Henry John Rose, Encyclopaedia Metropolitana: Plates and Maps to the Historical and Miscellaneous Divisions, page 607:

  ... field or charge is strewed with equidistant roundels, it is said to be bezanty, platy, pommetty, hurty, pelletty, semy of torteaux, semy of golpes, semy of oranges, semy of guzes, according to the nature of the roundel.

• 1986, William Leaf, Sally Purcell, Heraldic Symbols: Islamic Insignia and Western Heraldry:

  ... hurty is found, but semy of hurts, like semy of fountains, is more euphonic, while the remaining two, semy de torteaux and semy d'oranges, keep nearer to French form. Other common strewn or powdered fields are gouté, gutty.