trangle

English

Arms depicting a trangle supported by hooks, supporting a cauldron.

Etymology

From or related to French trangle.

Noun

trangle (plural trangles)

  1. (heraldry, rare) One of the (rarely used) diminutives of the fess (bar) or chief, a fillet or closet.
    • 1722, Alexander Nisbet, A System of Heraldry Speculative and Practical, page 73:
      Bendy of fix Gules and Argent; on a Chief of the last, a Rose of the first, supported by a Trangle (the Diminutive of a Barr. A Fillet , with the English, for the Diminutive of a Chief, of which before) Or, charged with a […]
    • 1894, John Woodward, A Treatise on Ecclesiastical Heraldry, page 298:
      The quartered arms of the See were usually arranged in an oval escucheon I. Gules, […] an eagle sable, crowned with an antique crown and supported by a trangle held in its claws, is brochant over the stem of the tree.

Anagrams

Catalan

Escut d'or, amb cinc trangles de sinople

Etymology

From French trangle, variant form of tringle.

Pronunciation

Noun

trangle m (plural trangles)

  1. (heraldry) trangle (an ordinary between a fess or bar and a barrulet in width)

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