Definition of Avellane

1. Adjective. Pertaining to filberts or hazelnuts.

Exact synonyms: Avellan
Partainyms: Corylus Avellana, Corylus Avellana

Definition of Avellane

1. a. In the form of four unhusked filberts; as, an avellane cross.

Definition of Avellane

1. Adjective. (heraldry) In the form of four unhusked filberts; as, an avellane cross. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Avellane

1. avellan [adj] - See also: avellan

Lexicographical Neighbors of Avellane

avatar
avatarhood
avatars
avaunce
avaunt
avaunted
avaunting
avauntour
avauntours
avaunts
ave
avel
aveled
aveling
avellan
avellane (current term)
avels
aven
avena
avenaceous
avenacinase
avenacosidase
avenage
avenasterol
avenasterols
avener
aveners
avenge
avengeance
avengeaunce

Literary usage of Avellane

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

1. English Heraldry: With Four Hundred and Fifty Illus. Drawn and Engraved on by Charles Boutell (1907)
"The Cross avellane, No. 109. The Crossed-Crosslet, and the Crosses Patee, Boton'ee, and Potent, are also drawn having their shaft elongated and ..."

2. The British Herald Or, Cabinet of Armorial Bearings of the Nobility & Gentry by Thomas Robson (1830)
"avellane, [French ... See CROSS avellane. ... pommel, and avellane double. See CROSSES of these descriptions. ..."

3. A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry by Henry Gough, James Parker (1894)
"Croit avellane: so called from its resemblance to four filberts (nuces avellana:); ... Argent, two bars gules, on a canton of the second a cross avellane ..."

4. The Cross in Tradition, History, and Art by William Wood Seymour (1897)
"Knights of noble birth bore the pilgrim's scallop shell of S. James at the intersection of the arms.1 Cross avellane. Cross Pattue. ..."

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