Definition of Botonee

1. Adjective. (of a heraldic cross) having a cluster of three buttons or knobs at the end of each arm.

Exact synonyms: Botonnee
Similar to: Buttoned, Fastened

Definition of Botonee

1. having arms ending in a trefoil -- used of a heraldic cross [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Botonee

bothriums
bothropic antitoxin
bothrops
bothy
bothyman
bothymen
botleas
botlike
botmaster
botmasters
botnet
botnets
boto
botocudos
botone
botonee (current term)
botonnee
botonny
botos
botrocetin
botropase
botryogen
botryoid
botryoid odontogenic cyst
botryoidal
botryolite
botryomycosis
botryomycotic
botryose

Literary usage of Botonee

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

1. The Church Heraldry of Norfolk: A Description of All Coats of Arms on by Edmund Farrer (1893)
"Quarterly, on a bend three crosses botonee ... or Fastolfe, Quarterly, or and azure, on a bend gules three crosses botonee or. This is supposed to be the ..."

2. Heraldic Visitation of the Northern Counties in 1530 by Thomas Tonge, Norroy by Thomas Tonge, William Hylton Dyer Longstaffe (1863)
"Gules, a chevron vaire argent and sable. SANDES.—Argent, a fess dancette between three crosses crosslet botonee ..."

3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1856)
"VI., Fr. and Eng. 3 Fs.-d.-L. 1496. Edm., third son of Hen. VII., Fr. and E. 3 Fs.-d.-L. 1502. Sir Barth. Read, Ld. Mr., cross botonee ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Still in the neighbourhood, in many places, one sees the ruined abbey's coat of arms: Vert, a cross botonee argent; in the first quarter the Blessed Mother ..."

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