sarcelled

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English

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Etymology

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From Old French cercel, from Latin circellus, diminutive of circulus (circle).

Adjective

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sarcelled (not comparable)

  1. (heraldry) Sarcelly, having curled ends (compare moline).
    • 1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica, Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry, page 9:
      Cross, quarterly, quartered, couped, ends sarcelled and reverted.
  2. (heraldry) Cut through the middle, or voided with the ends left open (unconnected).
    Synonyms: sarcelé, sarcellée
    • 1828-40, Berry, Encycl. Her. I"
      Cross pattée sarcelled at bottom in the form of a ᴧ reversed.
    • 1847, Henry Gough, A Glossary of Terms Used in British Heraldry: With a Chronological Table, Illustrative of Its Rise and Progress, page 101:
      Cross moline sarcelled, or voided throughout, cross recercelée, or recersile, or recercelée voided or disjoined, which has also been called a cross fleury biparted. This is borne by the names of Knollys, or Knowles, and Verney. Gules, a cross moline sarcelled argent. BEC. []

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