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/ʃˈɛvrən/ /ʃˈɛvrɑn/ Listen

Chevron

noun

V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service. Synonyms: grade insignia, stripe, stripes.

An inverted V-shaped charge.

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... recalling the early French and German manner. In addition, one finds the usual Lombard grotesques—two sea-monsters, biting each other; harpy-birds; a dragon with a twisted tail; little men grinning and squatting in adaptation to coigns and angles of the windows. The toothed and chevron patterns of the north are quaintly blent with rude acanthus scrolls and classical egg-mouldings. Over the western porch is a Gothic rose window. Altogether this church must be reckoned one of the most curious specimens of that hybrid architecture, fusing and appropriating ...

— New Italian sketches • John Addington Symonds

... decorations, Sir J. Gardner Wilkinson observes—"The Egyptians did not always confine themselves to the mere imitation of natural objects for ornament; and their ceilings and cornices offer numerous graceful fancy devices, among which are the guilloche, miscalled Tuscan borders, the chevron, and the scroll patterns. They are to be met with in a tomb of the time of the sixth dynasty; they are therefore known in Egypt many ages before they were adopted by the Greeks, and the most complicated form of the guilloche covered a whole Egyptian ...

— Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 • James Y. Simpson

Words linked to "Chevron" : charge, military, armed services, armed forces, badge, grade insignia, stripe, bearing, heraldic bearing, stripes, military machine, war machine, armorial bearing