caboshed

or ca·boched

[ kuh-bosht ]

adjective

, Heraldry.

1. (of an animal, as a deer) shown facing forward without a neck:

   a stag's head caboshed.

Word History and Origins

Origin of caboshed¹

First recorded in 1565–75; variant of caboched, past participle of Middle English caboche(n) “to behead (a deer),” from Anglo-French cabocher, derivative of caboche “head”; cabbage ¹

Example Sentences

Beckington's arms, which occur also on the gateways, are argent on a fess azure, between in chief three bucks' heads caboshed gules, and in base as many pheons sable, a bishop's mitre or.

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Arms, two shields, 1 Covert, impaling a phaon’s head: 2 impaling, a chevron, 2 roundlets, in chief a buck’s head caboshed.”

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In the centre are the arms and crest of Shakespeare, and on an escutcheon of pretence three stags' heads caboshed.

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A Stag’s head full-faced, but without the neck, as No. 170, is “cabossed” or “caboshed.”

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Sable, a crozier in pale, argent, the crook or, surmounted by a buck's head, caboshed of the second, horned gules, were the ancient arms of the Abbey, as they are still, though now impaled with the Clifford arms, by permission of Lord Clifford.

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