vergette

From French.

vergette (plural vergettes)

1. (heraldry) A small pale (vertical band down the middle of a shield).

• “vergette”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

From verge (“rod”) +‎ -ette, from Latin virga.

• IPA^(key): /vɛʁ.ʒɛt/

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vergette f (plural vergettes)

1. (literally) a small (wooden) rod
2. a clothes-brush
3. (heraldry) a pale at least fivefold thinner than usual

• vergeté
• vergetier

• vergé
• vergée
• verger
• vergeture

• “vergette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.