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pattée, patée, a. Her.|pate, ˈpætɪ|
Forms: 5–7 paty, 5–8 patee, 7–9 patée, 8 pattee, 9 pattée, paté.
[a. F. patté, pattée ‘pawed’, in croix pattée ‘a cross of which the extremities are widened in form of an open paw’ (Littré).
But in Bk. St. Albans, cros patee or paty is taken as repr. L. crux patens ‘cros patent’: see patent. And in ed. 1612 of Leigh's Armorie, crois patee is substituted for the cross patonce of edd. 1562–97.]
Applied to a cross the arms of which are nearly triangular, being very narrow where they meet and widening out towards the extremities, so that the whole composes nearly a square.
pattée-fitchée: applied to a cross having three arms as above, but the lowest sharpened to a point (see fitché).
1486Bk. St. Albans, Her. C ij b, Crucem argentatam patentem..vng cros patee dargent. Anglice sic. He berith Sable a cros paty of Siluer. Ibid., This cros patent is made dyuerse in the foote of the same as hit apperith here. And then hit is calde a cros patee fixible. c1500Sc. Poem Heraldry 137 in Q. Eliz. Acad. 99, xv maner of crocis armis bere:..the iiij, paty in feir... x fovrmie. 1572J. Bossewell Armorie 120 The fielde is Gules, a Cheuron betweene three crosses pattie [printed partie] dargent. 1616Middleton Civitatis Amor Wks. (Bullen) VII. 285 The pectoral of black leather, with a cross paty of silver thereon. 1766Porny Heraldry (1787) Dict., Patee, or Pattee,..This is said of a cross which is small in the center, and so goes on widening to the end. 1868Cussans Her. iv. 59 The Maltese Cross..differs from the Cross Paté in having the extremities of each of its limbs indented or notched. 1891‘Phil’ Penny Postage Jubilee 74 The next issue [of penny stamps] was in 1864... Instead of the upper angles having crosses pattée, letters were inserted. |