inveckée
English
Adjective
inveckée (not comparable)
- (heraldry) Indented by semicircles, variously defined in old works as invected or (double-)enarched (with semicircles biting inwards and points pointing outward) or engrailed (with semicircles biting outwards and points pointing inward).
- 1842, John Burke, Bernard Burke, A General Armory of England, Scotland, and Ireland:
- second, gu. a cross moline within a border inveckée, for CADDELL;
- 1911, The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary ... prepared under the superintendence of William Dwight Whitney ... rev. & enl. under the superintendence of Benjamin E. Smith, page 3170:
- [caption on an illustration of a chief double-enarched:] A Chief inveckée.
See also
- invecked
- goarée
Further reading
- 1911, The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, page 3170:
- invecked (in-vekt'), a. [Also envecked; cf. invected, invexed.] Bordered exteriorly by small rounded lobes of slight projection as compared with their width; invected. [...] inveckée (in-vek'-ā) a. [Heraldic F.; cf. invecked.] In her., double-arched, or, more rarely, triple-arched: said of a heraldic line, or the edge of an ordinary, which is bent into large curves forming an angle with each other.
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