ployé

See also: pløye

English

Azure, a chevron ployé (embowed) argent.

Etymology

French. Doublet of plicate.

Adjective

ployé (not comparable)

1. (heraldry) Bowed, curved.
   • 1892, John Woodward, George Burnett, A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 137:

     Thus, Argent, a chevron ployé gules (d'Argent, au chevron ployé de gueules) is the coat of the Danish AUGUSTINS or OWSTINS; the reverse is that of the RODENEGGS, Counts WOLKENSTEIN.

Anagrams

• Poley, Poyle, poley, pyelo, pyelo-

French

Participle

ployé (feminine ployée, masculine plural ployés, feminine plural ployées)

1. past participle of ployer