"vergescu" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English [Term?]",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "vierge escu",
        "lit": "virgin shield"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French vierge escu (literally “virgin shield”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English [Term?], from Old French vierge escu (literally “virgin shield”). It was white because it lacked a background or devices, which celebrated accomplishments, of which the knight had none.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "?"
      },
      "expansion": "vergescu",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Armor",
          "orig": "en:Armor",
          "parents": [
            "Technology",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Mid-16th century, anonymous author, The Harleian Manuscript, page 24",
          "text": "xxijᵗʰ daye of Maie, there shall be a grene tree sett up in the lawnde of Grenwich parke; whereuppon shall hange, by a grene lace, a Vergescu Blanke, in which white shield it shalbe lawfull for any gentleman that will annswear this chalenge ensewing to subscribe his name.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1940, Terence White, The Ill-Made Knight, page 186",
          "text": "\"Do you mean Galahad? Was he bearing the vergescu?” “Yes, Galahad. It wasn't a vergescu. He had got hold of a shield somewhere which was said to have belonged to Joseph of Arimathea. It was argent a tau cross gules.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Lev Grossman, The Magician King, page 114",
          "text": "They should have been facing down bellowed challenges from black knights bearing the vergescu, or solving thorny theological dilemmas posed by holy hermits. Or at the very least resisting the diabolical temptations of ravishing succubi.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The white shield that was the mark of novice knights, especially in Arthurian legend."
      ],
      "id": "en-vergescu-en-noun-mNFeuE4h",
      "links": [
        [
          "shield",
          "shield"
        ],
        [
          "novice",
          "novice"
        ],
        [
          "Arthurian",
          "Arthurian"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare, historical) The white shield that was the mark of novice knights, especially in Arthurian legend."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "vergescue"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈvɝ.d͡ʒɛs.k(j)u/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈvɜː.d͡ʒɛs.k(j)u/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "vergescu"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English [Term?]",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "vierge escu",
        "lit": "virgin shield"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French vierge escu (literally “virgin shield”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English [Term?], from Old French vierge escu (literally “virgin shield”). It was white because it lacked a background or devices, which celebrated accomplishments, of which the knight had none.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "?"
      },
      "expansion": "vergescu",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English 3-syllable words",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns with unknown or uncertain plurals",
        "English terms derived from Middle English",
        "English terms derived from Old French",
        "English terms inherited from Middle English",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses",
        "Middle English term requests",
        "en:Armor"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Mid-16th century, anonymous author, The Harleian Manuscript, page 24",
          "text": "xxijᵗʰ daye of Maie, there shall be a grene tree sett up in the lawnde of Grenwich parke; whereuppon shall hange, by a grene lace, a Vergescu Blanke, in which white shield it shalbe lawfull for any gentleman that will annswear this chalenge ensewing to subscribe his name.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1940, Terence White, The Ill-Made Knight, page 186",
          "text": "\"Do you mean Galahad? Was he bearing the vergescu?” “Yes, Galahad. It wasn't a vergescu. He had got hold of a shield somewhere which was said to have belonged to Joseph of Arimathea. It was argent a tau cross gules.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Lev Grossman, The Magician King, page 114",
          "text": "They should have been facing down bellowed challenges from black knights bearing the vergescu, or solving thorny theological dilemmas posed by holy hermits. Or at the very least resisting the diabolical temptations of ravishing succubi.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The white shield that was the mark of novice knights, especially in Arthurian legend."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "shield",
          "shield"
        ],
        [
          "novice",
          "novice"
        ],
        [
          "Arthurian",
          "Arthurian"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare, historical) The white shield that was the mark of novice knights, especially in Arthurian legend."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈvɝ.d͡ʒɛs.k(j)u/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈvɜː.d͡ʒɛs.k(j)u/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "vergescue"
    }
  ],
  "word": "vergescu"
}