Cross cleché

Croix de Toulouse

The cross cleché spreads by curved lines from the centre towards the extremities, which are very wide, and then end in an angle in the middle of the extremity by lines, also curved, drawn from the two points that make the breadth till they join. This cross seldom occurs in English heraldry but appears in French and Continental blazon. When a cross cleché is borne voided and pommelled it is called Croix de Toulouse. This led early English authors, such as Guillim and Edmondson, to consider cleché as signifying any ordinary pierced throughout, with nothing visible but the edges.  The Croix de Toulouse was also called a cross masculy and pommelled by some early English armorists.