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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
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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