a. Her. Also 9 trefflee. [F. tréflé having the form of a trefoil.] Adorned with trefoils: either along one edge, as a bend treflé, or at the end of each arm, as a cross treflé (in the latter case = BOTONÉ). So Trefled, treffled a. (Cent. Dict., 1891).
1725. Coats, New Dict. Her., Trefleé, a Cross Treeflé, is that whose Arms end in three Semicircles each representing the Trefoil or three-leav’d Grass.
1864. Boutell, Her. Hist. & Pop., xix. § 5 (ed. 3), 314. A bend treflée vert.
1882. Cussans, Handbk. Her., viii. 130. Treflé ensigned with Trefoils. The Arms of Saxony, borne by the Prince of Wales, afford an example of a Bend treflé.
1892. Jrnl. Cork Hist. Soc., May, 85. The special pattern of the cross is trefflee or trefoil.
