rempli

English

Etymology

From French rempli.

Adjective

rempli (not comparable)

  1. (heraldry, rare) Having another tincture than its own covering the greater part.
    • 1713, Notitia St. Johanniana: or, Genealogical and historical memoirs of the ... family of St. John, etc:
      (42) Berks, an Antient and Honourable FAmily, but hath yet no Issue. His Arms are Argent on a Chief Gules, two Mullets Or, a Label on a Crescent for his Armorial difference; and for Crest the Falcon Or. Ducally gorged Gules, and an Eagle Or on the Breast of the last; the Lock Gold, rempli per Pale Argent and Sable therein, []
    • 1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry, page 21:
      Chief rempli, or bordered. Plate XXIX.
    • 1914, The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, page 5073:
      rempli [...], a. [< F. rempli, pp. of remplir, fill up, < re- + emplir, fill, < L. implere, fill up : see implement.] In her., having another tincture than its own laid over or covering the greater part : thus, a chief azure rempli or has a broad band of gold occupying nearly the whole space of the chief, so that only a blue fimbriation shows around it. [Image caption:] Argent, a chief azure rempli or.

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French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁɑ̃.pli/
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Participle

rempli (feminine remplie, masculine plural remplis, feminine plural remplies)

  1. past participle of remplir

Adjective

rempli (feminine remplie, masculine plural remplis, feminine plural remplies)

  1. filled
    • 1973, Jean Eustache, La Maman et la Putain, spoken by Alexander:
      Non, je ne fais rien mais je vous ai dit que j'ai une vie bien remplie.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. (heraldry) filled (having another tincture than its own covering the greater part)
    • 1669, Marc de Vulson (sieur de La Colombière), La science heroique,traitant de la noblesse et de l'origine des armes: de leurs blasons & symboles,etc, page 106:
      D'azur au chef d'or rempli de gueules, ou bien d'azur au chef coufu de gueules, bordé d'or.
      Azure with a chief or filled with gules, or azure with a couped chief gules, bordered in gold.
    • 1754, Jean Baptiste Dupuy Demportes, Traite historique et moral du blason, ouvrage rempli de recherches curieuses et instructives, sur l'origine et les progres de cet Art, page 205:
      De gueules, au chef d'or rempli de gueules, ou bien d'azur, au chef coufu d'azur ou bordé d'or.
      Gules with a chief or filled with gules, or azure with a couped chief azure, bordered in gold.
    • 1886, Robert Charles Jenkins, Heraldry, English and Foreign, page 61:
      Beurl (Styria). "Gules à un coude" (an elbow) "en triangle d'or, mouvant de l'angle senestre de l'écu en traverse, et recoupant en burèle rempli de sable." This seems needlessly complicated. For we have here merely a gyron (or) extending from []
      Beurl (Styria). "Gules with a bend embowed" (an elbow) "in a triangle or, issuant from the sinister angle of the shield in a crosspiece, and intersecting in a bend filled with sable." This seems needlessly complicated. For we have here merely a gyron (or) extending from []

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