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Definition of Botonee
1. Adjective. (of a heraldic cross) having a cluster of three buttons or knobs at the end of each arm.
Definition of Botonee
1. having arms ending in a trefoil -- used of a heraldic cross [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Botonee
Literary usage of Botonee
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Church Heraldry of Norfolk: A Description of All Coats of Arms on by Edmund Farrer (1893)
"Quarterly, on a bend three crosses botonee ... or Fastolfe, Quarterly, or and
azure, on a bend gules three crosses botonee or. This is supposed to be the ..."
2. Heraldic Visitation of the Northern Counties in 1530 by Thomas Tonge, Norroy by Thomas Tonge, William Hylton Dyer Longstaffe (1863)
"Gules, a chevron vaire argent and sable. SANDES.—Argent, a fess dancette between
three crosses crosslet botonee ..."
3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1856)
"VI., Fr. and Eng. 3 Fs.-d.-L. 1496. Edm., third son of Hen. VII., Fr. and E.
3 Fs.-d.-L. 1502. Sir Barth. Read, Ld. Mr., cross botonee ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Still in the neighbourhood, in many places, one sees the ruined abbey's coat of
arms: Vert, a cross botonee argent; in the first quarter the Blessed Mother ..."
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