Her. Also 6–7 shapournet(t. [dim. of chapourn, or corruption of F. chaperonnet.]

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  In a coat of arms, a chief divided by a bow-shaped line, understood to represent a hood.

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1562.  Leigh, Armorie (1597), 62 b. The field is Tenne, a chief Shapournet, Or, and Ermines.

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1610.  Guillim, Heraldry, II. iv. (1660), 56. The field is Tennè, a cheefe, or, charged with a Shapournet Ermine. This tearm Shapournet (if I mistake not) is derived from the French word Chaperon which signifieth a Hood, whereof this is a diminutive and beareth a resemblance.

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1696.  Phillips, Chapournet, a little Hood, a bearing in Armory.

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1721–1800.  Bailey, Chapournet, a little Hood; the Figure of which Heralds take for the Bearing of a Coat of Arms.

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  Hence Chapournetted, Shap- a. = CHAPOURNED.

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1688.  R. Holme, Armoury, I. viii. § 86. 85/1. He beareth … a Fesse and a shapournett shapour[n]ed (or shapournetted or headed) of the third. Ibid., I. ix. § 1. 88/1. He beareth Argent a [Chief] Shapournetted Reversed, Azure. (Some term it a Chiefe Shapourned…).

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