bendy
adjective
- flexible
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈbɛndi/ / /ˈbɪndi/
adj
Etymology: From Middle English bendee, from Old French bendé (past participle).
- Divided into diagonal bands of colour.
“7. Talbot, Bendy gules and argent; 8. Comyn, Gules, three garbs within a tressure flory counter-flory or; 9. Valence, Barry of ten argent and azure, an orle of martlets gules;”
“His arms as there displayed are emblazoned on a bendy field of his livery colours vert, argent and gules.”
noun
Etymology: From Middle English bendee, from Old French bendé (past participle).
- A field divided diagonally into several bends, varying in metal and colour.
“The original escutcheon of the Norman family was a bendy of ten, argent and gules.”
“[…], 3 within a bordure gules a bendy of six or and azure (Burgundy Ancient), 4 sable a lion rampant or (Brabant), overall an inescutcheon or a lion rampant sable (Flanders); encircled by[…]”