abaissé en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /əˈbeɪˌseɪ/ (General-American)
Etymology
Borrowed from French abaissé (“to lower”).
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Of a charge, especially a fess: borne lower than usual.
Or, a bend sable, on a chief of the first a pomeis charged with a cross gold; the whole abaissé under another chief of the arms of the Order of St. John, Gules a cross argent.
1896, John Woodward, A treatise on heraldry, British and foreign, W. & A.K. Johnston, page 129:
- (not-comparable) Having the ends (tips) of the wings turned downward towards the point of the shield (of an eagle, etc).