treflée

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French tréflé(e). See trefoil. Doublet of trifoliate.

Adjective[edit]

treflée (not comparable)

  1. (heraldry) Trefoiled, trefly.
    • 1901, Howel Wills, Florentine Heraldry: A Supplement to the Guide-books, page 118:
      Gaddi: Azure, a cross treflée or.
    • 1921, Edward Alfred Webb, The Records of St. Bartholomew's Priory and of the Church and Parish of St. Bartholomew's the Great: West Smithfield, page 478:
      3. ALBERT EDWARD PRINCE OF WALES. The Royal arms as above, differenced with a label of three points argent, over all, barry of ten or and sable a bend treflée vert (Saxony).
    • 1927, Notes and Queries, page 82:
      Vert, a cross treflée (or flory) argent between four open crowns or, in a canton of the second the Blessed Virgin holding the Holy Child proper. (Woodward, Ecclesiastical Heraldry.
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