What is Caboshed? | Heraldry & Emblems

[wolram]

SA, promted this post with his heraldry post in H and H, i have two questions ,what is caboshed? it does not sound nice, and which emblem would you choose?

http://www.library.nd.edu/rarebooks/digital_projects/heraldry/charges/beasts.shtml

Looks like i would have no chance with the pascal lamb.

 

[Mk]

Who the hell would have a chained monkey on their coat of arms? Does that say something about the family?

 

[Andre]

Interesting
Caboshed would be "front sight" judging the picture. So what does the dictionary say?

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/caboshed

Ca`boched´
a. 1. (Her.) Showing the full face, but nothing of the neck; - said of the head of a beast in armorial bearing.

Memorize that one, you can baffle people with that.

 

[wolram]

Who the hell would have a chained monkey on their coat of arms? Does that say something about the family?

An aminal well known for--------

Sagacity (Sa*gac"i*ty) (?), n.
[L. sagacitas. See Sagacious.]

The quality of being sagacious; quickness or acuteness of sense perceptions; keenness of discernment or penetration with soundness of judgment; shrewdness. "Some [brutes] show that nice sagacity of smell." Cowper. "Natural sagacity improved by generous education." V. Knox.

Synonyms -- Penetration; shrewdness; judiciousness. -- Sagacity, Penetration. Penetration enables us to enter into the depths of an abstruse subject, to detect motives, plans, etc. Sagacity adds to penetration a keen, practical judgment, which enables one to guard against the designs of others, and to turn everything to the best possible advantage.

 

[wolram]

Interesting
Caboshed would be "front sight" judging the picture. So what does the dictionary say?

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/caboshed

Ca`boched´
a. 1. (Her.) Showing the full face, but nothing of the neck; - said of the head of a beast in armorial bearing.

Memorize that one, you can baffle people with that.

i will work it into conversation at every oppertunity.

 

[Evo]

Yep, Webster's 1828 dictionary

CABOSHED, n. In heraldry, having the head cut close, so as to have no neck left.

English
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Etymology
From French caboché, past participle of cabocher, from caboche ‘head’.

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Pronunciation

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Adjective
caboshed

(Heraldry) of an animal, shown face-on and cut off immediately behind the ears
Retrieved from "http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/caboshed"

 

[twisting_edge]

...what is caboshed? it does not sound nice...

The reason you don't think it sounds very nice is you have probably heard it being used like this:

kibosh
One entry found for kibosh.
Main Entry: ki·bosh
Pronunciation: 'kI-"bäsh, kI-'; ki-'bäsh
Function: noun
Etymology: origin unknown
: something that serves as a check or stop <put the kibosh on that>
- kibosh transitive verb

I thought it was purely slang. I'd never seen anyone attempt to spell it before.

 

[wolram]

The reason you don't think it sounds very nice is you have probably heard it being used like this:

kibosh
One entry found for kibosh.
Main Entry: ki·bosh
Pronunciation: 'kI-"bäsh, kI-'; ki-'bäsh
Function: noun
Etymology: origin unknown
: something that serves as a check or stop <put the kibosh on that>
- kibosh transitive verb

I thought it was purely slang. I'd never seen anyone attempt to spell it before.

So you could kibosh some one from caboshing ? as in (he put a kabosh
to the caboshed ram painting).