pellety

English
The griffin supporting the arms of the City and Guilds of London Institute is pellety.

Etymology

pellet +‎ -y

Adjective

pellety (comparative more pellety, superlative most pellety)

  1. Having a consistency like pellets.
  2. Full of pellets.
    • 1963, George MacBeth, Owl:
      Round beaks are at / work in the pellety nest, / working. Owl is an eye / in the barn.
  3. (heraldry, not comparable) Semé (strewn) with pellets (roundels sable).
    • 1933, James Thomas Herbert Baily, The Connoisseur:
      : -gules, a hind trippant or between three pheons or, within a bordure engrailed argent pellety. The printed version of Glover , which is frequently incorrect and is, incidentally, responsible for the use of many false […]
    • 1998, Joan Corder, John Blatchly, A Dictionary of Suffolk Crests: Heraldic Crests of Suffolk Families, Boydell & Brewer, →ISBN, page 319:
      A dragon's head erased Or pellety eared and langued Gules.

Alternative forms

See also
metals main colours less common colours
tincture orargentgulesazuresablevertpurpuretennéorangesanguine
depiction a shield of gold a shield of silver a shield of red a shield of blue a shield of black a shield of green a shield of purple a shield of brownish orange a shield of bright orange a shield of blood red
roundel (in parentheses: semé): a circle of gold
bezant (bezanty)		a circle of silver
plate (platy)		a circle of red
torteau (tortelly)		a circle of blue
hurt (hurty)		a circle of black
pellet (pellety), ogress		a circle of green
pomme

a circle of purple
golpe (golpy)		a circle of orange
orange (semé of oranges)		a circle of blood red
guze (semé of guzes)
goutte (noun) / gutty (adj) thereof: a drop of gold
(goutte / gutty) d'or (of gold)		a drop of silver
d'eau (of water)		a drop of red
de sang (of blood)		a drop of blue
de larmes (of tears)		a drop of black
de poix

(of pitch)		a drop of green
d'huile / d'olive (olive oil)		a drop of purple



special roundel furs additional, uncommon tinctures:
tincture fountain, syke: barry wavy argent and azureermineermines, counter-ermineerminoispeanvaircounter-vairpotentcounter-potentbleu celeste, brunâtre, carnation, cendrée (iron, steel, acier), copper, murrey
depiction a circle of wavy blue and silver bars a shield of ermine a shield of ermines a shield of erminois a shield of pean a shield of vair a shield of countervair a shield of potent a shield of counterpotent
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