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English: Arms of Trefusis: Argent, a chevron between three spindles sable. The spindles are copied from those shown in the Trefusis arms in the Trefusis heraldic window, circa 1822-42, on the grand staircase in Bicton House, Devon. These are canting arms, from French fuseau,[1] from Latin fusus,[2] a spindle, with the Anglo-Saxon place name element "Tre-" or "Tref-"("hamlet, farmstead, estate") which survives in Wales and the Southwest of England (almost exclusively in Cornwall).[3] The manor of Trefusis was thus originally held before the Norman Conquest of 1066 by an Anglo-Saxon named "Fusis" or "Usis" or similar, thus "Farmstead of Fusis"
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  1. From the French le fuseau comes fusiller, le fusil ("a rifle"), etc, referring to "rifling" in the barrel of a rifle which serves to spin a bullet giving it a straighter trajectory
  2. Cassell's Latin Dictionary
  3. Padel, Oliver J., Place Names, article published in Kain, Roger & Ravenhill, William, (eds.) Historical Atlas of South-West England, Exeter, 1999, pp.88-94, esp.88-90

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