Bottony
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Cross bottony on a shield
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In heraldry, bottony refers to a symbol having a bud or button, or a kind of trefoil, at the end; furnished with knobs or buttons. Hence, a cross bottony (or "botonny") is a cross having each arm terminating in three rounded lobes, forming a sort of trefoil. From the religious point of view, the cross bottony can be used as a symbol of the Christian Trinity.
A cross bottony which is heraldically "counterchanged" occurs on the flag of Maryland.
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- Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. 1913.
