gobony

[ guh-boh-nee ]

adjective

, Heraldry.

1. compony.

Word History and Origins

Origin of gobony¹

1605–15; obsolete gobon slice, Middle English goboun < Anglo-French *gobon ( Old French gobet; gobbet ) + -y as in compony

Example Sentences

Arms subsequent to his legitimation: France and England quarterly, within a bordure gobony azure and argent.

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About the same time the border gobony began to acquire a like character.

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An early example shows that this shield began as a plain field with a gobony border.

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Thus John Cromwell (14th century) bore “Silver a chief gules with a baston gobony of gold and azure.”

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