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/ʃˈɛvrən/ /ʃˈɛvrɑn/ Listen

noun

Chevron n.

(Her.) One of the nine honorable ordinaries, consisting of two broad bands of the width of the bar, issuing, respectively from the dexter and sinister bases of the field and conjoined at its center.

(Mil.) A distinguishing mark, above the elbow, on the sleeve of a non-commissioned officer's coat.

(Arch.) A zigzag molding, or group of moldings, common in Norman architecture.

Chevron bones (Anat.), The V-shaped subvertebral arches which inclose the caudal blood vessels in some animals.

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Etymology of 'Chevron'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Chevron" Quotes from Famous Books

... recall with unfailing accuracy. On 25th May 1865, whilst I was staring at one of the sunlit fountains in Trafalgar Square, and listening to the bells of Westminster as they chimed the hour of four, a venerable old spider in a blue uniform with brass buttons, and a triple chevron of gold lace upon his arm, accosted me without introduction and asked me what I thought about life in the Army. Until then, so far as I can remember, I had never thought about the Army at all. My eighteenth ...

— Recollections • David Christie Murray

... students either had themselves or knew of someone who had been working for the past two weeks making this "flying disc". was unable to furnish the names of any of these young men but identified one of them who was making the statements as being employed in a Chevron Service Station at the corner of Victory Boulevard and Whitsett Street. He described the youngster as about sixteen ...

— Federal Bureau of Investigation FOIA Documents - Unidentified Flying Objects • United States Federal Bureau of Investigation

... Not likely. But Peter had dismissed the fat captain from his mind, together with all other alien thoughts, as he concentrated upon the amazing words of this exceedingly amazing and beautiful girl. She was looking down at the chevron of gold sparks ...

— Peter the Brazen - A Mystery Story of Modern China • George F. Worts

... fashioned out of beams of wood, with twinkling lights all over where the glow from within shone through the chinks. The roof was poor and thatched; but in strange contrast to it there ran all along under the eaves a line of wooden shields, most gorgeously painted with chevron, bend, and saltire, and every heraldic device. By the door a horse stood tethered, the ruddy glow beating strongly upon his brown head and patient eyes, while his body stood back in ...

— The White Company • Arthur Conan Doyle

... king of the Danes of Dublin, and Donatus the first Danish bishop; but the oldest part of the present structure belongs to the time we are now speaking of: the close of the twelfth century. The transepts with their chevron mouldings and the principal doorway are of that period, and we may regard them as an offering in expiation of the early heathen raids on Lambay, Saint Patrick's Isle, and the early ...

— Ireland, Historic and Picturesque • Charles Johnston

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