Talk:cleché

Meaning
Interestingly, I see some disagreement about this, with some sources saying it means ≈"(of a cross) having its ends flare out in a shape resembling the bow of an old-fashioned key", and that the idea it means ≈"voided" is an error resulting from some prominent crosses cleché(s) happening to also be voided. Several reference works (though old ones, which may be outdated) do define it as ≈"voided", including Webster, whose illustration is a cross voided and unflared, though he also has a weird monosyllabic pronunciation for it:



On the other hand, some reference works do say the term specifies a flaring shape (though some also include being voided or charged with the field):



(Less clear is this.) I'll see if I can find old blazons with illustrations which might clarify. (Wikipedia's illustration, File:Coat of arms of Occitania.svg, seems heraldically incorrect (the field is wrong, making the field and the cross upon it the same colour, a violation of the rule of tincture); more plausible is this version.) - -sche (discuss) 18:17, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Further information: w:Wikipedia:Reference desk/Humanities#cléché. - -sche (discuss) 04:23, 10 January 2023 (UTC)