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Definition of Cléché
1. Adjective. (heraldry) Charged with another bearing of the same figure, and of the colour of the field, so large that only a narrow border of the first bearing remains visible. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cléché
1. voided [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cléché
Literary usage of Cléché
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to Heraldry: With Nearly One Thousand Illustrations by Hugh Clark, James Robinson Planché (1866)
"... a French term, applied to any ordinary which is so completely perforated, that
its edges only are visible. CLECHE, A CROSS (voided and ..."
2. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"... may be lifted out of the flagging, the experiment being generally tried on
pavement. North. CLEAVERS. Tufts of grass. East. CLECHE. To snatch, or seize. ..."