Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A ringlike molding around the capital of a pillar.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A little ring.
- noun Specifically — In architecture, a small projecting member, circular in plan and usually square or angular in section; especially, one of the fillets or bands which encircle the lower part of the Doric capital above the necking: but annulet is often indiscriminately used as synonymous with list, listel, cincture, fillet, tenia, etc.
- noun In heraldry, a ring borne as a charge. It is also the mark of cadency which the fifth brother of a family ought to bear on his coat of arms. Also called
anlet . Seecadency . - noun In decorative art, a name given to a band encircling a vase or a similar object, whether solidly painted, or in engobe, or composed of simple figures placed close to each other. Compare
frieze .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A little ring.
- noun (Arch.) A small, flat fillet, encircling a column, etc., used by itself, or with other moldings. It is used, several times repeated, under the Doric capital.
- noun (Her.) A little circle borne as a charge.
- noun (Zoöl.) A narrow circle of some distinct color on a surface or round an organ.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
ring . - noun architecture A ring-shaped
molding at the top of acolumn - noun heraldry A small
circle borne as acharge incoats of arms .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small ring
- noun (heraldry) a charge in the shape of a circle
- noun molding in the form of a ring; at top of a column
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Per fesse indented quarterly or and sable, in each quarter an annulet counterchanged.
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But for the badge of princehood, the fringed ribbon dependent from a gem-crusted annulet over each temple, his habiliments were the same as the Pharaoh's.
The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Elizabeth Miller
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Quarterly &c. an annulet on the 2nd quarter Rochford
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter
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The whole surrounded by thirteen blue stars in the form of an annulet with one point of each star outward on the imaginary radiating center lines.
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The whole surrounded by white stars arranged in the form of an annulet with one point of each star outward on the imaginary radiating center lines, the number of stars conforming to the number of stars in the union of the Flag of the United States as established by the act of Congress approved April 4, 1818, 3 Stat. 415.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 9646 1945
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The Pakingtons of Worcester quarter Ermine on a fesse componé or, and az. an annulet for Arden.
Shakespeare's Family 1885
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"Paly of six on a bend three mullets (Elton) impaling a fish, and in the dexter chief point an annulet between two bends wavy."
Old French Romances William Morris 1865
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LE SCROPE, on the other hand, for Cadency marks the golden bend upon his azure Shield, No. 111, with an _annulet sable_, as in No. 353.
The Handbook to English Heraldry Charles Boutell 1844
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Rebecca Berry, who died 1696, in whose coat-of-arms a fish and an annulet appear.
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Gules; on the highest bar an annulet of the third, Breston, and Grey of WiUon: fourth.
Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical Arthur Collins , Egerton Brydges 1812
chained_bear commented on the word annulet
In heraldry, a small circle worn as a charge in coats of arms.
February 6, 2007