chevroned
- a word derived from chevron.
Example Sentences
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She might slip a salmon fillet atop chevroned layers of lemon slices or onto a well-soaked cedar plank.
From Washington Post ● May 17, 2022
His writer's eye picks out the "chevroned metal floor" of a merry-go-round, and a man with a ponytail "as thick as a pony's tail."
From Time Magazine Archive
The serpent is very neatly engraved and belongs to the chevroned variety.
From Illustrated Catalogue of a Portion of the Collections Made During the Field Season of 1881 Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 427-510 by Holmes, William Henry
I knew something of heraldry and read aloud without hesitation the bearings upon the shield, prominent among which were three wolves' heads, chevroned, supported by two black wolves, rampant, the coronet and motto "Praeclare factum."
From The Black Wolf's Breed A Story of France in the Old World and the New, happening in the Reign of Louis XIV by Relyea, C. M. (Charles Mark)
A chevroned black-beard half a horse-length behind him translated the demand into stately Pashtu, and for answer the hill chieftain mounted his stolen horse and shook his tulwar.
From Rung Ho! by Mundy, Talbot
