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Estoile   Listen
noun
Estoile  n.  (Written also étoile)  (Her.) A six-pointed star whose rays are wavy, instead of straight like those of a mullet.
Estoile of eight points, a star which has four straight and four wavy rays.
Estoile of four points. Same as Cross estoilé, under Cross.






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"Estoile" Quotes from Famous Books



... visions about which, a few days after the St. Bartholomew, he had spoken to Ambrose Pare. He no longer retained in his room anybody but two of his servants and his nurse, "of whom he was very fond, although she was a Huguenot," says the contemporary chronicler Peter de l'Estoile. "When she had lain down upon a chest, and was just beginning to doze, hearing the king moaning, weeping, and sighing, she went full gently up to the bed. 'Ah, nurse, nurse,' said the king, 'what bloodshed and what murders! Ah! what evil counsel have I ...
— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume IV. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot

... not a woman had little to do in the company of Scarron's Angelique and Mademoiselle de l'Estoile. Florise, in short, is somewhat too allegorical and haughty a creature; while Colombine and Nerine (Vaudeville, June 1864) are rather tricksy imps than women of flesh and blood. M. De Banville's stage, ...
— Essays in Little • Andrew Lang



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