tiercé

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  tierce    tierced  

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
tierce /tɪəs/

▶noun

• 1 another term for terce.

• 2 Music an organ stop sounding two octaves and a major third above the pitch of the diapason.

• 3 (in piquet) a sequence of three cards of the same suit.

• 4 Fencing the third of eight parrying positions.

• 5 a former measure of wine equal to one third of a pipe, usually equivalent to 35 gallons (about 156 litres).

– origin ME: var. of terce.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
tierced /tɪəst/ (also tiercé /ˈtjəːseɪ/)

▶adjective Heraldry divided into three equal parts of different tinctures.

– origin C18: orig. as tiercé ‘divided into three parts’, Fr. past part. of tiercer.