caudé

See also: caûde

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin caudātus, from Classical Latin cauda (tail).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ko.de/
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  • Homophones: caudée, caudées, caudés

Adjective

caudé (feminine caudée, masculine plural caudés, feminine plural caudées)

  1. (biology) caudate
  2. (heraldry) tailed, having a tail
    • 1890, Commission des Antiquités de la Seine-Inférieure, Rouen, Bulletin de la commission des antiquités e la Seine-Inférieure ..., page 238:
      [] au quatrième, d’or, au lion passant de sable, armé, lampassé, et caudé de gueules; au chef de gueules, chargé de (1)  []
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