baron and femme

English

Alternative forms

• baron and feme

Noun

baron and femme

1. (law, heraldry, dated) Man and wife.
   • 1719, Baron and Femme: A Treatise of the Common Law Concerning Husbands and Wives [...]:

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   • 1816, Tapping Reeve, The Law of Baron and Femme, of Parent and Child, of Guardian and Ward, of Master and Servant, and of the Powers of Courts of Chancery:

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2. (heraldry) The arms of a man and his wife, marshalled together.
   • 1821, Alexander Jamieson, Universal Science Or the Cabinet of Nature and Art, Comprising Above One Thousand Entertaining and Instructive Facts and Experiments, page 304:

     When the coats of arms of a married couple, descended of distinct families, are to be marshalled on an escocheon, the field of their respective arms is conjoined pale-ways, and blazoned thus: parted per pale, baron and femme; first the baron's arms are to be described, then the femme's.

References

• The Manual of Heraldry, Fifth Edition, by Anonymous, London, 1862, online at [1]

Further reading

• Baron and feme on Wikipedia.Wikipedia