gobony

[ guh-boh-nee ]

adjective

, Heraldry.

1. compony.

Word History and Origins

Origin of gobony¹

1605–15; obsolete gobon slice, Middle English goboun < Anglo-French *gobon ( Old French gobet; gobbet ) + -y as in compony

Example Sentences

About the same time the border gobony began to acquire a like character.

From Project Gutenberg

But it has rarely been seen in England over other shields; and, although the border gobony surrounds the arms granted to a peer of Victorian creation, the modern heralds have fallen into the habit of assigning, in nineteen cases out of twenty, a wavy border as the standard difference for illegitimacy.

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In this case the pieces are said to be “gobony.”

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After his legitimation in 1397 he changed his bearings to the royal arms of France and England within a border gobony of silver and azure.

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The silver feather has a quill gobony silver and azure.

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