surmounted

Etymology

verb

  1. simple past and past participle of surmount

adj

  1. (architecture) Of an arch or dome: rising higher than a semicircle.
  2. (heraldry) Overlaid; denoting a figure when another is laid over it.
    Argent, a fess vert, surmounted by a saltier gules, by the name of Parveis. 1846, William Newton, Display of Heraldry, page 75

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