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Definition of Caboched
1. a. Showing the full face, but nothing of the neck; -- said of the head of a beast in armorial bearing.
Definition of Caboched
1. Adjective. (heraldry) Showing the full face, but nothing of the neck; said of the head of a beast in armorial bearing. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Caboched
1. full-faced -- used of an animal's head in heraldry [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Caboched
Literary usage of Caboched
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical by John Britton, James Norris Brewer, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Frederic Shoberl, Joseph Nightingale, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, John Bigland, John Evans, Thomas Rees (1812)
"... (or as he is sometimes called Elystan,) bore two coats quartered, azure, three
boars heads caboched sable, langued gules, tusked or. ..."
2. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People by Chambers, W. and R., publ (1876)
"When the head of an animal is borne, without any part of the neck, and exhibited
full in face, it is said to be caboched. ..."
3. The American Historical Magazine by Publishing Society of New York, Americana Society (1908)
"The term cabossed is said to be from an old French word caboche which signifies
the head, but the French use the word massacre for a head caboched, ..."
4. The Standard American Encyclopedia of Arts, Sciences, History, Biography by John Clark Ridpath (1897)
"caboched', or Cabossed', (Fr. caboche, " the head.") In Her., when the head of
an animal is borne, without any part of the neck, and exhibited in face, ..."
5. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1879)
"... that the revived college had taken what I believe was the original bearing of
Hart Hall, the arms of Elms de Hertford: Gules, a hart's head caboched, ..."
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