embrassé

See also: embrasse

French

D’argent au canard colvert au naturel volant en fasce; embrassé à dextre, en chef d’azur à l’ombre d’une tour crénelée d’or mouvant de la partition et en pointe de gueules à la feuille de chêne d’argent posée en bande.

Participle

embrassé (feminine embrassée, masculine plural embrassés, feminine plural embrassées)

1. past participle of embrasser

Adjective

embrassé (feminine embrassée, masculine plural embrassés, feminine plural embrassées)

1. (heraldry) "embraced" on the specified side by sections that extend to the top and bottom of the opposite edges of the shield, dividing it into three sections with a triangle of the field in the middle (similar to chaussé or chapé but with the base of the triangle being the sinister or dexter side rather than the top or bottom)

Further reading

• “embrassé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• John Woodward, George Burnett (1892) A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 90:

  When the chapé, or chaussé, is placed in a horizontal instead of in a vertical direction (that is when the apex of the pile is on either the dexter or the sinister flank of the escucheon) the field is said to be embrassé (à dextre, or à senestre). Thus the Von Völcker of Frankfurt bear: Argent, a rose gules, the field embrassé à senestre of the second.

Anagrams

• embrases, embrasés