delf

Diplôme d'étude de langue française, a French-language qualification.

A mine, quarry, pit dug; ditch.

A charge representing a square sod of turf, traditionally taking the form of a simple square (e.g. in the middle of an escutcheon), although modernly sometimes represented with the grass in profile.

two delves gules

Alternative form of delft (“style of earthenware”).

Five nothings in five plates of delf

Suddenly a beautiful delf blue-and-white flower-pot, which had been set on the window-sill of an upper storey, fell to the ground with a crash, and the fragments spluttered up around my father's legs.