sarcelly

Etymology
From, "curly, curled", from  (compare ). Attested since at least 1500.

Adjective

 * 1)  Having its end terminate in forked tips which curl around both ways, either like or else more pronounced than  or /.
 * 2) * 1897, W. K. R. Bedford, Blazon Episc. (ed. 2) 217:
 * Gules, a cross sarcelly ermine.
 * 1) * 1897, W. K. R. Bedford, Blazon Episc. (ed. 2) 217:
 * Gules, a cross sarcelly ermine.
 * Gules, a cross sarcelly ermine.

Usage notes

 * Some English (and French) heralds gave this term, or some spellings of it (e.g. separating ones with -ar- from ones with -er-), any of a variety of other meanings: because crosses sarcelly were often borne voided, some writers took sarcelly or sarcelled or variants thereof to mean a cross was, with or without the ends being open (unconnected), or was "sawed or cut through the middle" (and the term was reportedly then applied to animals in this sense in some blazons), or "charged with a filet of the same form of another tincture" (like but with the filling being a different colour from the field), similar to the misinterpretation of . Others took it to mean "", and in this sense it was reportedly applied to some bordures. *   *

Alternative forms

 * recercelée, cercelée, sarcele, recercelé
 * cercelé, cercellé, cercellée, recercellé, recercellée, sarcellée
 * cercelly, sarcelé, sarcelée, sarcelie

Translations

 * French: cercelée,