gyronnetty

[gyronnetty, a.

A spurious word in some recent Dicts.; an alteration (after gyron) of gironnetté, given as a French word in heraldic dicts. with the explanation ‘Finished at the top with points; said of a castle or tower used as a bearing’. This is a blunder for F. girouetté ‘furnished with a weathercock (girouette) of a specified tincture’.

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