sarcelled
adjEtymology From Old French cercel, from Latin circellus, diminutive of circulus (“circle”).
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Government, Heraldry, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Monarchy, Nobility, Politics Sarcelly, having curled ends (compare moline).
- Cross, quarterly, quartered, couped, ends sarcelled and reverted.1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica, Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry, page 9:
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Government, Heraldry, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Monarchy, Nobility, Politics Cut through the middle, or voided with the ends left open (unconnected).
- 1828-40, Berry, Encycl. Her. I" Cross pattée sarcelled at bottom in the form of a ᴧ reversed.
- Cross moline sarcelled, or voided throughout, cross recercelée, or recersile, or recercelée voided or disjoined, which has also been called a cross fleury biparted. This is borne by the names of Knollys, or Knowles, and Verney. Gules, a cross moline sarcelled argent. BEC. […]1847, Henry Gough, A Glossary of Terms Used in British Heraldry: With a Chronological Table, Illustrative of Its Rise and Progress, page 101: