Lexicographical Neighbors of Chevrony
Literary usage of Chevrony
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... the 13th century the "masonry pattern" was disused for the lower parts of
walls, and the chevrony and other stiff Flu 12. ..."
2. Memoirs Illustrative of the History and Antiquities of the County and City (1850)
"... the extremities of the whole being welded into massive loops, which are
curiously tooled with chevrony lines and small circular indentations, ..."
3. The Popular Encyclopedia: Being a General Dictionary of Arts, Sciences by Daniel Keyte Sandford, Thomas Thomson, Allan Cunningham (1836)
"... is filled with pieces of equal number in the form >f chevrons, it is said to
be chevrony of so many >ieces, as chevrony of six, argent and gules ..."
4. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"... LIKING. zigzag, a. crooked (contextual), sinuous (contextual'), cranky (rare);
spec, zig- zaggy, dog-legged (said of a kind of staircase), chevrony. ..."
5. A Dictionary of Miniaturists, Illuminators, Calligraphers, and Copyists by John William Bradley (1889)
"The arms are chevrony of 7 sable and or; in chief a label of 3 points gu. with 3
plates or bezants ..."
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