urdy

English

Adjective

urdy (not comparable)

1. (heraldry) Alternative form of urdé
   • 1908, Adrian Fortescue, The Orthodox Eastern Church, page 350:

     He bears as arms the lion of St. Mark, sejant-guardant, crowned and winged, bearing in the dexter jambe a closed book surmounted by a cross urdy.

   • 1925, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, A Complete Guide to Heraldry, page 95:

     As to the term urdy, which is given in Woodward and Burnett and also in Berry , I can only say I personally have never come across I an instance of its use as a partition line. A cross or a billet urdy one knows, but urdy as a partition line I have yet to find.

   • 2006, Guy Stair Sainty, Rafal Heydel-Mankoo, World Orders of Knighthood & Merit:

     Order For Services, first class (star) same silver centre roundel but without the gold cross urdy. The star of the Order is an eight-pointed star of plain gold rays with an eight-pointed silver centre bearing a light blue […]