botonée

Also boton·née,

[bot-n-ey, bot-n-ey]

adjective

Heraldry.

1. (of a cross) having arms terminating in the form of a trefoil.

   cross botonée.

Word History and Origins

Origin of botonée¹

1565–75; < Middle French: covered with buds, equivalent to boton bud, button + -ée; -ee

Example Sentences

Small Crosses Botonée are occasionally used as these “Crosses-Crosslets,”—as at Warwick in the arms of the Beauchamps, the Earls of Warwick.

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Cross, that is, “fixable” in the ground; No. 110 is an example of a Cross Botonée Fitchée.

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