a. Her. Also 7 umbreted. [See prec. and -ED1. So F. ombré.] Indicated or drawn in a faint or shadowy manner.

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1486.  [see UMBRATION 1].

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1562.  Legh, Armory, 79. He beareth Or. a Lion Saliaunte vmbrated. This is as muche to saye, as the shadowe of a Lion;… he is but traced with pencell. vpon the fielde. So that the fyelde sheweth throwghe him.

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1572.  Bossewell, Armorie, II. 25. This crosse so vmbrated is thus to be blazed. A. beareth Or, a crosse Moloyne Vmbre.

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1610.  Guillim, Heraldry, II. iii. 42. The portraicting out of any thing umbrated, is nothing else but a sleight and single draught or purfle traced out with a pensile, expressing to the view a vacant forme of a thing deprived of all substance.

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1688.  Holme, Armoury, IV. viii. (Roxb.), 354/1. Morholt de Irland. A. Barry vmbreted ouer all a Lion rampant G.

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c. 1828.  Berry, Encycl. Her., I. Gloss. s.v., A sun umbrated does not show the face as it is usually represented.

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