furché

English

Adjective

furché (not comparable)

  1. Archaic form of fourche (“forked”).
    • 1832, James Dallaway, A History of the Western Division of the County of Sussex: Including the Rapes of Chichester, Arundel, and Bramber, with the City and Diocese of Chichester, page 237:
      Gules, a lion rampant queue-furché argent , on the shoulder a mullet sable;  […]
    • 1910, George Austin Morrison, The "King" Family Heraldry: A Brief History of the Origin of the Families of this Name in Old and New England Entitled to Bear Coat-armor, page 19:
      Sable, a lion rampant queu furché, or, a label of three points, argent. (See Plate III.) These arms were granted to Thomas Kinge, Alderman of Coventry, 26th December, 1683,  […]
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