mullett

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mullett (plural mulletts)

  1. Obsolete spelling of mullet (heraldic star).
    • 1873, Henry Sydney Grazebrook, The Heraldry of Worcestershire, page 322:
      "They beare a mullett for difference." Jov.
    • 1887, Edmund Farrer, The Church Heraldry of Norfolk, page 134:
      The above is no doubt intended for the following, viz., Quarterly: - 1 and 4, Quarterly, argent and gules; in the second and third quarters a fret or; over all on a bend sable three escallops silver, with a mullett for [difference].