Recurved
adj, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 simple past and past participle of recurve form-of, participle, past
- 1 Curved or bent, either in two different directions, or back on itself.
"We will not, however, travel on his "elephants' snouts in coat armour," beyond a field or, with "the proboscide of an elephant, erected, flexed and recurved gules, issuing out of a pierced place; towards the basis thereof, a rose-sprig vertant et revertant, about the trunk to the middle thereof proper."
- 1 curved backward or inward wordnet
Example
More examples"We will not, however, travel on his "elephants' snouts in coat armour," beyond a field or, with "the proboscide of an elephant, erected, flexed and recurved gules, issuing out of a pierced place; towards the basis thereof, a rose-sprig vertant et revertant, about the trunk to the middle thereof proper."
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