créquier

créquier (plural créquiers)

1. (heraldry) A wild cherry tree of seven (less commonly, five) branches, typically also depicted fruited.
   • 1882, Notes and Queries, page 419:

     83, the arms of the Créquy family are the créquier gules on a field or; see the picture.

   • 1896, John Woodward, A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 335:

     Gules, a créquier argent, are the arms of LE JOSNE (now LE JEUNE) Marquis DE CONTOY. Argent , a nut tree eradicated vert, is borne by NOZIER, and NOGARET in France, and by FACCHINETTI in Italy.

• Italian vepre

crèque +‎ -ier.

• IPA^(key): /kʁe.kje/

créquier m (plural créquiers)

1. blackthorn tree (Prunus spinosa)
2. bullace tree (Prunus domestica ssp. insititia)
3. hence, Prunus × fruticans, a natural hybrid of the two aforementioned difficult to distinguish from the blackthorn
4. (heraldry) a stylized wild cherry tree or thornbush, resembling a chandelier

• “créquier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.