Enty

Quick meaning: Enty is an adjective meaning (heraldry, of the base of a shield) Parted off chevronwise; (of a charge) enté en point, inserted into a chevronlike partition of the base of the shield.

Meaning

(heraldry, of the base of a shield) Parted off chevronwise; (of a charge) enté en point, inserted into a chevronlike partition of the base of the shield.

Example Sentences

Shields parted chevronwise are common in the 15th century, when they are often blazoned as having chiefs "enty" or grafted. Aston of Cheshire bore "Party sable and silver cheveronwise" or "Silver a chief enty sable."

The third is gold with four pales of gules or red. The fourth is gules or red with a gold chain arranged per cross, per saltire, and in orle, charged at the center with an emerald proper [i.e. green]. It is enty of silver with a[…]

Enty : a word adopted but by few writers from the French enté, a graft , and applied to the base of the shield when parted off by a line chevrouwise : written by some heralds ampty. See Point : also Gusset. Argent, on a chief enty [in more recent blazon 'indented'] azure five crosses croslet or—Ralph de Wilshere.

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