undee

English

Adjective

undee (not comparable)

  1. (heraldry) Alternative form of undé
    • 1722, Alexander Nisbet, A System of Heraldry Speculative and Practical, page 68:
      N. R. Gavin DRUMMOND , descended of Kildies, who was a Cadet of the Family of Pitkellanie, Or, three Barrs undee Gules, over all a naked Man naiant in Pale, grasping in his dexter Hand a Sword, and having his sinister Hand […]
    • 1846, William Skey, The Heraldic Calendar: A List of the Nobility and Gentry Whose Arms are Registered, and Pedigrees Recorded in the Herald's Office in Ireland, page 32:
      Arms - Gules, a falcon volant, or, within an orle engrailed, undee, argent.
    • 1881, Frank Henry Norton, Charles Edward Anthon, William Sumner Appleton, Samuel Abbott Green, Jeremiah Colburn, William Theophilus Rogers Marvin, American Journal of Numismatics, page 36:
      The arms of Fluvian are another early example of canting heraldry, being or, a fess undee gules - on a red shield a wavy horizontal stripe of red, thus alluding to his name, which is from the Latin fluvius, a river.
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