- soustenu

SOUSTENU, Soutennée, or Soutenu. When a chief is represented supported by a small part of the escutcheon beneath it, of a different colour, or metal from the chief, and reaching as the chief doth, from side to side, being as it were a fillet on the bottom part of the chief, of another colour. P. 12, f. 33. (ELVN)