caboshed

adjective

ca·​boshed

kəˈbäsht

variants or less commonly cabossed

-äst

or caboched

-äsht

heraldry

: borne affronté without the neck showing

—used of an animal's head

Word History

Etymology

from past participle of obsolete caboche to behead (a deer) close behind the horns, from Middle English cabochen, from Old North French caboche head

First Known Use

1530, in the meaning defined above

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