pellety
English
Etymology
Adjective
pellety (comparative more pellety, superlative most pellety)
- Having a consistency like pellets.
- Full of pellets.
- 1963, George MacBeth, Owl:
- Round beaks are at / work in the pellety nest, / working. Owl is an eye / in the barn.
- (heraldry, not comparable) Semé (strewn) with pellets (roundels sable).
- 1933, James Thomas Herbert Baily, The Connoisseur:
- : -gules, a hind trippant or between three pheons or, within a bordure engrailed argent pellety. The printed version of Glover , which is frequently incorrect and is, incidentally, responsible for the use of many false […]
- 1998, Joan Corder, John Blatchly, A Dictionary of Suffolk Crests: Heraldic Crests of Suffolk Families, Boydell & Brewer, →ISBN, page 319:
- A dragon's head erased Or pellety eared and langued Gules.
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| metals | main colours | less common colours | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tincture | or | argent | gules | azure | sable | vert | purpure | tenné | orange | sanguine |
| depiction | ||||||||||
| roundel (in parentheses: semé): | bezant (bezanty) |
plate (platy) |
torteau (tortelly) |
hurt (hurty) |
pellet (), ogress |
pomme (pommy) |
golpe (golpy) |
orange (semé of oranges) |
guze (semé of guzes) | |
| goutte (noun) / gutty (adjective) thereof: | (goutte / gutty) d'or (of gold) |
d'eau (of water) |
de sang (of blood) |
de larmes (of tears) |
de poix (of pitch) |
d'huile / d'olive (olive oil) |
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| special roundel | furs | uncommon tinctures: | ||||||||
| tincture | fountain, syke: barry wavy argent–azure | ermine | ermines, counter-ermine | erminois | pean | vair | counter-vair | potent | counter-potent | bleu celeste, brunâtre, carnation, cendrée (iron, steel, acier), copper, murrey |
| depiction | ||||||||||