countervairy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Divided into a countervair pattern of two or more tinctures.
Example Sentences
- "Bufkin. Arms.—Or, a chevron between three close helmets azure. [...] A shield [blank] impaling: Quarterly: 1, Per fess azure [and argent], a pale countercharged between three bucks' heads, two and one, erased [or]; [...] 3, Ermine, a fess counter vairy or and gules; [...] Another shield [blank] impaling: [...] 6, Counter vairy argent and azure, a canton gules."
- "In the border of a miniature, the arms of the first owner, apparently a member of the Van Varssenaere family of Bruges (1, sable three daggers proper in bend; 2, sable three sheaves of wheat or; 3, argent vairy countervairy gules; 4, azure six ears of wheat or, 3, 2, 1)."
- "[…] and finally that of Vaché: “Vairy and countervairy in three tiers of gold and purple, with a silver chief charged by two facing sable sphinxes, placed over the partition.""
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
counter-vairy (alternative)
counter vairy (alternative)