chequy
- a variation of checky.
Example Sentences
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The Fanshawes also bore chequy, &c., for the same reason.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony
Thomas de Arderne, 1286, a shield chequy, a chevron, "S. Thome de Arderne."
From Shakespeare's Family by Stopes, C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael)
The "Visitation of Suffolk," notes: "In the shield of Lady Elizabeth Morrison, daughter of Nicholas Clerk, of Weston, in Oxfordshire, the Ardern arms are quartered, a Fesse chequy or and azure, at Great Saxham, Suffolk."
From Shakespeare's Family by Stopes, C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael)
Edward Arden bore the family arms: Ermine, a fesse chequy or and azure.
From Shakespeare's Family by Stopes, C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael)
The family of Pitt, earl of Chatham, bore ‘Sable, a fesse chequy argent and azure, between three bezants or pieces of money,’ in allusion to the office the original grantee held in the EXCHEQUER.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony
