unquartered
adjEtymology From un- + quartered.
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Government, Heraldry, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Monarchy, Nobility, Politics Not divided into quarters.
- An heir may bear his father's arms unquartered, but he is not entitled by the common law of arms to bear his mother's so.1914, John Horne Stevenson, Heraldry in Scotland, page 337:
- John's father, also John, whose seal was seen somewhere by Streatfeild (in whose MSS. there is a drawing of the seal) used a plain unquartered shield of the Pashley crowned and double-queued lion[…]1961, Archaeologia Cantiana:
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Not assigned quarters; not given a place to live.
- unquartered soldiers