debruised

Etymology

See debruise. Compare Old French debruisier (“to shatter, break”). Compare bruise.

adj

  1. (heraldry) Surmounted by an ordinary (or something else).
    A lion is debruised when a bend or other ordinary is placed over it.
    Serpent, embowed, the head debruised, or surmounted of the tail; also blazoned, […] 1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica, Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry, page 5

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