sarcelie

English

Adjective

sarcelie (not comparable)

1. Obsolete spelling of sarcelly.
   • 1586, Sir John Ferne, The blazon of gentrie, page 175:

     ... not of that strégth which sometimes it carried, for vis vnita fortior and according to this example, may all crosses be borne parted, or deuided ouer the sheeld, be they Molyn, Nyle, Pattee, Sarcelie, Botonie, Florrie &c.

   • 1909, Essex Archaeological Society, Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society, page 186:

     Under the effigies an escoch. in brass inlaid, [bearing] a cross sarcelie, for Uvedall, impaling a lyon rampart surmounting a bastion, for Branche. Under the escocheon, on a plate of brass, this inscription in Gothick […]