bourdonnée
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[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Croix-bourdonnee.svg/220px-Croix-bourdonnee.svg.png)
Adjective
[edit]bourdonnée (not comparable)
- (heraldry, of a cross) Having the ends terminating in rounded knobs like those on a pilgrim's staff; pommetty.
- 1898, British Museum. Department of Manuscripts, Walter de Gray Birch, Catalogue of Seals in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, page 185:
- A shield of arms : bendy of six, over all a cross bourdonnée fitchée.
- 1910, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour, page 1282:
- Crest - Upon a crest coronet or, charged with a cross bourdonnée azure, a pelican argent, holding in the bill a nail or. Motto - "Sine labe nota." Residence - Henley House, Avenue Road, Regent's Park, N.W. PILKINGTON […]
French
[edit]Participle
[edit]bourdonnée f sg