a. Her. [F. contrepointé, f. contre against, opposite + point point.] (See quot.)
1727–51. Chambers, Cycl., Counter-pointed … is when two chevrons in one escutcheon meet in the points; the one rising, as usual, from the base, and the other inverted, falling from the chief…. They may also be counter-pointed … when they are founded on the sides of the shield, and the points meet that way; called counter-pointed in fesse.
