chevronel

English

Alternative forms

chevronelle

Etymology

From chevron +‎ -el (“forming diminutives”)

Noun

chevronel (plural chevronels)

(heraldry) A bearing like a chevron, but of only half its width.
- 1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., Vol. II, p. 183:
  CHEVRONEL, a diminutive of chevron, and as ſuch only containing half a chevron.

See also

couple-close

References

chevronel in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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