Definition of Formee

1. having the arms narrow at the center and expanding toward the ends -- used of a heraldic cross [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Formee

formatters
formatting
formattings
formay
formazan
formazans
formboard
formboards
forme
forme fruste
formed
formed visual hallucination
formedness
formedon
formedons
formee (current term)
formell
formelt
former
former(a)
former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
formeret
formerets
formerly
formers
formes
formestane
formeth
formfeed
formfeeds

Literary usage of Formee

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Visitacion of Norffolk by William Harvey, Robert Cooke, John Raven, College of Arms (Great Britain) (1891)
"Arms: Argent, an eagle displayed with two heads sable, on a chief azure three crosses formee ... formee ..."

2. The Visitation of the County of Worcester Made in the Year 1569: With Other by William Phillimore Watts Phillimore, Richard Mundy (1888)
"Between two wings expanded sable a cock's food argent, beaked, combed, and wattled gulfs, holding in the beak a cross formee ..."

3. Display of Heraldry by William Newton (1846)
"This sort of cross is by some heralds called formee, The cross formee or patee is sometimes ... appertains to the name of Collier; Azure, a cross formee, ..."

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