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Etymology
Adjective
pellety (comparative more pellety, superlative most pellety)
- Having a consistency like pellets.
- Full of pellets.
- 1963, George MacBeth, Owl:
- Round beaks are at / work in the pellety nest, / working. Owl is an eye / in the barn.
- (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 | ||||||||
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tincture | or | argent | gules | azure | sable | vert | purpure | tenné | orange | sanguine |
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roundel (in parentheses: semé): | ![]() bezant (bezanty) |
![]() plate (platy) |
![]() torteau (tortelly) |
![]() hurt (hurty) |
![]() pellet (pellety), ogress |
![]() pomme |
![]() golpe (golpy) |
![]() orange (semé of oranges) |
![]() guze (semé of guzes) | |
goutte (noun) / gutty (adj) thereof: | ![]() (goutte / gutty) d'or (of gold) |
![]() d'eau (of water) |
![]() de sang (of blood) |
![]() de larmes (of tears) |
![]() de poix (of pitch) |
![]() d'huile / d'olive (olive oil) |
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special roundel | furs | additional, uncommon tinctures: | ||||||||
tincture | fountain, syke: barry wavy argent and azure | ermine | ermines, counter-ermine | erminois | pean | vair | counter-vair | potent | counter-potent | bleu celeste, brunâtre, carnation, cendrée (iron, steel, acier), copper, murrey |
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