a. Obs. Her. [COUNTER- 14, after F. contre-bandé.] Bendy, with the bends formed of two halves of different tinctures counterchanged.
1727–51. Chambers, Cycl., Counter-bendy, or Contre-Bandé, in heraldry, is used by the French to express what we ordinarily call bendy of six per bend sinister counterchanged.
