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单词 gobony
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Definition of gobony in English:

gobony

adjective ɡɒˈbəʊniɡəˈbōnē
Heraldry
  • another term for compony
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Around this central design is a border of alternating silver and green pieces (the formidable ‘bordure gobony,’ which is explained as ‘fourteen gobbits gyronwise’).
    • After his legitimation in 1397 he changed his bearings to the royal arms of France and England within a border gobony of silver and azure.
    • Whether Sir Malcolm Wallace and his son bore their arms with a bordure compony (or gobony), as here, or with a bordure counter-compony as shown elsewhere on these pages, is uncertain.

Origin

Late Middle English: from obsolete gobbon 'piece, gobbet' + -y3.

Definition of gobony in US English:

gobony

adjectiveɡəˈbōnē
Heraldry
  • another term for compony
    Example sentencesExamples
    • After his legitimation in 1397 he changed his bearings to the royal arms of France and England within a border gobony of silver and azure.
    • Whether Sir Malcolm Wallace and his son bore their arms with a bordure compony (or gobony), as here, or with a bordure counter-compony as shown elsewhere on these pages, is uncertain.
    • Around this central design is a border of alternating silver and green pieces (the formidable ‘bordure gobony,’ which is explained as ‘fourteen gobbits gyronwise’).

Origin

Late Middle English: from obsolete gobbon ‘piece, gobbet’ + -y.

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