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counterembattled en · ADJ

Etymology

From counter- + embattled.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Having a lower edge or outline of alternating square indentations and extensions like battlements.
   • Shield of Beckingham. Argent a fess counterembattled between three escallops sable, impaling Gules within a border engrailed or a lion passant argent, late 14th-c. 1996, Penny Hebgin-Barnes, The Medieval Stained Glass of the County of Lincolnshire, page 29:
   • Az., on a fesse, embattled, counterembattled, arg., between three cocks' heads, erased, of the last, beaked, combed, and wattled, gu., two roses, also gu. 1860, Bernard Burke, A Selection of Arms Authorized by the Laws of Heraldry, page 34:

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