Her. Also 6 bendelet. [prob. f. earlier BENDEL + -ET dim. But OF. had also bendelette, in Bk. of St. Albans transl. bendil (see BENDEL, also BANDLET, BANDELET).] A smaller bend, containing a sixth part of the field.
1572. Bossewell, Armorie, 12. Bendelet.
1605. Camden, Rem. (1637), 224. Roger Clifford … for the bendelet tooke a fesse Geules.
1864. Boutell, Heraldry Hist. & Pop., xiv. 155. They appear … to have cotised their own silver bend with the two bendlets.
