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The Chevron moth (Eulithis testata) is a moth of the family Geometridae with a wing span of between 25 and 35 mm found in Europe, Asia and North America flying from July to September in damp meadows, peat-bogs and forests on peaty soil.
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Chev is an abbreviation for chevron
CHEV is an abbreviation for Chevalier
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The chevron moustache is a style of straight moustache that extends beyond the lips and is wide in the centre and narrower at the ends.
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HMS Chevron was a British C Class destroyer of 1710 tons displacement launched in 1944. HMS Chevron was powered by two Admiralty 3-drum type boilers providing a top speed of 34 knots and carried a crew of 186. She was armed with four 4.5 inch dual-purpose guns; four 40 mm anti-aircraft guns; six 20 mm anti-aircraft guns; four 21-inch torpedo tubes.
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In architecture, a chevron is a zigzag moulding, or group of mouldings, common in Norman architecture.
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In architecture, a zigzag is a moulding running in a zigzag line usually formed of a chevron, or series of chevrons.
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In heraldry a chevron is one of the nine honourable ordinaries, consisting of two broad bands of the width of the bar, issuing, respectively from the dexter and sinister bases of the field and conjoined at its centre. The ordinary chevron is supposed to reprsent two rafters meeting at the top.
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In heraldry, a chevronel is a bearing like a chevron, but of only half its width.
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In heraldry chevronwise means in the manner of a chevron, For example the field may be divided chevronwise.
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In heraldry, the term couched describes something that is usually erect lying on its side. Thus, a chevron couched is one which emerges from one side of the escutcheon and has its apex on the opposite side, or at the fesse point.
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