vêtu
French
editEtymology
editInherited from Middle French and Old French vestu.
Pronunciation
editParticiple
editvêtu (feminine vêtue, masculine plural vêtus, feminine plural vêtues)
- past participle of vêtir
Adjective
editvêtu (feminine vêtue, masculine plural vêtus, feminine plural vêtues)
- dressed
- (heraldry, of a person) clothed (in a specified tincture)
- 1867, Louis Pierre d' Hozier, Armorial général des registres de la noblesse de France, résumé et précédé d'une notice sur la famille d'Hozier, ... par E. de Barthélemy, page 39:
- Armes : De gueules, à un saint Michel de carnation, vêtu d’argent à la romaine, […]
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (heraldry, of a field) covered with a vêtement (four triangles of a specified tincture which cover the corner of the shield, leaving a lozenge of the field in the middle)
Further reading
edit- “vêtu”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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