Middle English Dictionary Entry
quartlẹ̄ adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | quartlẹ̄ adj. Also -lei, -li, quartel(ie & (?error) quarteler. |
| Etymology | OF quartelé, p.ppl. of carteler. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Divided into four parts; ?also, cut in pieces; (b) her. of a coat of arms: arranged in four sections with different charges occupying alternate sections; of a figure or device on a coat of arms or a vestment: ?occurring once in each quarter; ~ with, occupying alternate quarters of a coat of arms with (sth. else).
Associated quotations
a
- c1425(c1400) Ld.Troy (LdMisc 595)7129 : Wheche deth of thes him best semes? Schal he be qwarteler with a knyff?
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)419 : Quartle [Win: quarteryd]: Quadripartitus.
- a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sln 1986)p.37 : Take fyggus quartle, and raysyns, þo Hole dates, almondes.
b
- (1369-75) Doc.in Nicolas Navy 2478 : [Arms] quartel'.
- (1459) Invent.Fastolf(2) in Paston Letters (Gairdner)3.188 : Item, j vestement of divers colurys, withe a crosse of golde to the bakke, iiij birdys quartelye.
- (c1460) Bk.Arms in Anc.3 (Hrl 2169)191 : A lion gules crowned..the arms of Ierewsalem qwartly with-all.
- (c1460) Bk.Arms in Anc.4228 : [Silver a saltire gules engrailed] Quartly wyth the armys of Salesbery.
- (c1460) Bk.Arms in Anc.4230 : [A crescent sable on the fesse] quartly wyth Westmerland.
- c1475(a1449) Lydg.KEng.(1) (Hrl 372)179 : The iijde Edward..Bar on his armys quartle iij flour delis.
- a1700(1454) Grant Arms in Hrl.Soc.762 : I..have..founde the right armes of the seid John..that is to sey, quartley, in the first quarter siluere & sinoble paled of iiij peeces, iij Cressantes counter-chaunged; in the second quarter Asure, iij egles of golde, membered of silure, crowned of gowles.