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countervairy en · ADJ

Etymology

From counter- + vairy.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable, of a field or charge, rare) Divided into a countervair pattern of two or more tinctures.
   • […] and finally that of Vaché: “Vairy and countervairy in three tiers of gold and purple, with a silver chief charged by two facing sable sphinxes, placed over the partition." 2014 April 24, Patrick Lepetit, The Esoteric Secrets of Surrealism: Origins, Magic, and Secret Societies, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
   • Bufkin. Arms.—Or, a chevron between three close helmets azure. [...] A shield [blank] impaling: Quarterly: 1, Per fess azure [and argent], a pale countercharged between three bucks' heads, two and one, erased [or]; [...] 3, Ermine, a fess counter vairy or and gules; [...] Another shield [blank] impaling: [...] 6, Counter vairy argent and azure, a canton gules. 1924, Thomas Benolt, The Visitations of Kent ..., page 86:
   • In the border of a miniature, the arms of the first owner, apparently a member of the Van Varssenaere family of Bruges (1, sable three daggers proper in bend; 2, sable three sheaves of wheat or; 3, argent vairy countervairy gules; 4, azure six ears of wheat or, 3, 2, 1). 1961, Seymour de Ricci, William Jerome Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, page 1816:

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Translations (2)

fr contrevairé (Translations) · pl contrevairé (Translations)