chapé

 

chapé

1. (heraldry) A division of the field, used in French heraldry, created by drawing two lines from the centre of the upper edge of the shield towards the outer bottom edges (creating a triangle), with the tincture being applied to the two upper portions which the triangle divides.

• chaussé

• Peach, Pecha, cheap, peach

From French échapper (“to escape”), compare Haitian Creole chape.

chapé

1. to escape

• chappé

• Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales

• capé (continental Normandy)
• chape (Sark)

From Old French chapel, from Early Medieval Latin cappellus, diminutive from Late Latin cappa.

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chapé m (plural chapieaux)

1. (Jersey, Guernsey) hat

• Chapé (“Helmet of Orion”)
• chapé du pot à thée (“tea-cosy”)
• chapé gorneux (“floppy hat”)
• chap'lée (“hatful”)

chapé

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of chapar