ppl. a. Her. = prec.
a. 1700[?]. Montgomeries, in Evans, O. B. (1784), I. ix. 48. In heralds books your ensigns flower’d, And counter-flower’d.
1708. J. Chamberlayne, St. Gt. Brit., I. II. ii. (1743), 53. Within a double Tressure, counter-flowered Lys.
1727–51. Chambers, Cycl., s.v. Contre-bend.
1830. in Robson, Brit. Herald, III. Gloss., Counter-flowered or flurty, same as counter-fleury or flory, and sometimes called floretty.
Also Counter-flowery.
1787. in Porny, Her., Gloss.
