Definition of Chevrony

1. stripy [adj] - See also: stripy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chevrony

chevisaunce
chevon
chevre
chevres
chevret
chevrets
chevrette
chevron
chevron incision
chevroned
chevronel
chevronels
chevroning
chevrons
chevronwise
chevrony (current term)
chevrotain
chevrotains
chevvy
chevy
chevying
chew
chew off
chew on
chew on the scenery
chew out
chew over
chew the cud
chew the fat
chew the scenery

Literary usage of Chevrony

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

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... the 13th century the "masonry pattern" was disused for the lower parts of walls, and the chevrony and other stiff Flu 12. ..."

2. Memoirs Illustrative of the History and Antiquities of the County and City (1850)
"... the extremities of the whole being welded into massive loops, which are curiously tooled with chevrony lines and small circular indentations, ..."

3. The Popular Encyclopedia: Being a General Dictionary of Arts, Sciences by Daniel Keyte Sandford, Thomas Thomson, Allan Cunningham (1836)
"... is filled with pieces of equal number in the form >f chevrons, it is said to be chevrony of so many >ieces, as chevrony of six, argent and gules ..."

4. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"... LIKING. zigzag, a. crooked (contextual), sinuous (contextual'), cranky (rare); spec, zig- zaggy, dog-legged (said of a kind of staircase), chevrony. ..."

5. A Dictionary of Miniaturists, Illuminators, Calligraphers, and Copyists by John William Bradley (1889)
"The arms are chevrony of 7 sable and or; in chief a label of 3 points gu. with 3 plates or bezants ..."

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