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Definition of Fretty
1. a. Adorned with fretwork.
Definition of Fretty
1. Adjective. (heraldry) Covered with a lattice-like pattern of diagonally interlaced bendlets and bendlets sinister. ¹
2. Adjective. Peevish, inclined to fret, agitated, worrying. ¹
3. Adjective. (colloquial) Inflamed, like a sore. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fretty
1. fretful [adj -TIER, -TIEST] - See also: fretful
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fretty
Literary usage of Fretty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great by John Woody Papworth (1874)
"Gu. fretty or a canton arg. NOVELLE or NOWELL. Gu. fretty or a canton of the second.
... Or fretty of six and a canton gu. a label of five points az. ..."
2. A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries by John Woodward (1896)
"The fretty is rarely formed by a compound line, but Gules, fretty engrailed ...
Some coats originally fretty were afterwards represented as bearing a simple ..."
3. The British Herald Or, Cabinet of Armorial Bearings of the Nobility & Gentry ...by Thomas Robson by Thomas Robson (1830)
"ar. a cbev. gu. fretty of the first, betw. three demi lions ramp. az. ; on a ...
Hall, [Stretham, in the Isle of Ely] ar. a chev. gu. fretty of the first, ..."
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