Citations:en abyme
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English citations of en abyme
- in the abyss, that is, the centre of a heraldic shield
- 2011, Anne Curry, Andy King, David Simpkin, The Soldier Experience in the Fourteenth Century, Boydell & Brewer Ltd, →ISBN, page 172:
- Arms: Or, a shield en abyme gules, eight martlets in orle of the same (Potier de Courcy, i, 393). Gouyon, Louis/Thibault (c.1325–after 1351), lord of Launay en Ploubalay (22, St-Malo diocese). Ancestry from Étienne Gouyon, […]
- 1858, Archaeologia Cambrensis, page 409:
- His wife bore, — Sable, a lion rampant regardant argent, armed, langued and eyed gules. ... His wife bore, — Argent, a face gules between 2 chevrons confronted azure. ... (en abyme), on a chief gules a tower of the second.
- 1998, The Thomas Hardy Year Book:
- ... of "colour and shape" is marked in that titular field argent (silver or white) per fess gules: "She wore a red ... she is also universally representative since her external différence en abyme (or synedochic inescutcheoning) […]