Obs. Also 6 lambewe. Pl. lambeaux (also erroneously used as sing.). [Fr.: see LABEL.] A strip or fillet hanging from a head-dress or garment. In Her., one of the dependent points of a label (see LABEL 5); occas. the label itself.
1562. Leigh, Armorie (1597), 107. He beareth Argent, a fyle with iij Lambeaux Azure, for a difference. Some will call them a Labell of three pointes…. The field Argent, a File, and one Lambewe Vert.
1599. Hakluyt, Voy., II. II. 81. At his cappe hang certaine Lambeaux much like vnto a Bishops Miter.
1610. Guillim, Heraldry, I. vi. (1611), 22. Some other authors call them files, and others Lambeaux or labels.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, I. 108/2. Lambeaux, Plaits of a Garment.
1828–40. Berry, Encycl. Herald., I. Cross lambeaux is the bearing of a cross upon a lambeaux or label.
Hence † Lambeauxed a., ‘dovetailed’ (Gloss. Her., 1847).
