DCHP-3

ceinture fléchée

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a kind of sash, having an arrowlike design woven into it. See picture at L'Assomption sash.

Quotations

1931
. . . the old voyageur, dressed in his big blue capote, wearing his ceinture fléchée (sash) . . . sang in a staid manner. . . .
1941
The arrow sash or ceinture fléchée of General Sir Isaac Brock is the oldest dated specimen, its owner having died while wearing it on the battlefield in 1812.