Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for ROM'PU, or ROM-PEE'
ROMP'ISH-NESSRON'DEAU, or RON'DO
ROM'PU, or ROM-PEE', n. [L. rumpo, to break.]
In heraldry, an ordinary that is broken, or a chevron, a bend or the like, whose upper points are cut off. – Encyc.
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