caboched
English
Alternative forms
- caboshed
- cabossed
Etymology
From French caboche (“head”). Compare cabbage.
Adjective
caboched (not comparable)
- (heraldry) Showing the full face, but nothing of the neck; said of the head of a beast in armorial bearing.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for caboched in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)