créquier
English
Noun
créquier (plural créquiers)
- (heraldry) A wild cherry tree of seven (less commonly, five) branches, typically also depicted fruited.
- 1882, Notes and Queries, page 419:
- 83, the arms of the Créquy family are the créquier gules on a field or; see the picture.
- 1896, John Woodward, A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 335:
- Gules, a créquier argent, are the arms of LE JOSNE (now LE JEUNE) Marquis DE CONTOY. Argent , a nut tree eradicated vert, is borne by NOZIER, and NOGARET in France, and by FACCHINETTI in Italy.
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See also
- Italian vepre
French
Etymology
crèque + -ier.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʁe.kje/
Noun
créquier m (plural créquiers)
- blackthorn tree (Prunus spinosa)
- bullace tree (Prunus domestica ssp. insititia)
- hence, Prunus × fruticans, a natural hybrid of the two aforementioned difficult to distinguish from the blackthorn
- (heraldry) a stylized wild cherry tree or thornbush, resembling a chandelier
Further reading
- “créquier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.