The original star contained sixteen points, which we may consider to indicate, appropriately, the words Estoile de Bethlem.
On the dexter half, quarterly, first and fourth, sable an estoile argent for Honford; second and third gules, a scythe argent for Praers.
An estoile of sixteen rays is used by the town of Ilchester, but the arms are not of any authority.
Take, for instance, the Sievier crest, which is anestoile between two ostrich feathers.
Other numbers are quite permissible, but the number of points (more usually in an estoile termed "rays") must be stated.
Under the present rules it would be officially depicted with the estoile facing the side, one ostrich feather in front over the nose, and the other at the back of the head, which of course reduces it to an absurdity.
To repeat them in full is neither necessary nor possible: the amiable L’Estoile in particular experiences all the delight of a simple soul surrounded by several days’ proceedings of which not a single detail is anything less than amazing.
Readable history of the art from antiquity to latter 19th century; many descriptions of early ballets and masques are quoted from Ménestrier, De l’Estoile and others.
The lords and ladies appeared in a fresh costume every day, a new practice of whose extravagance L’Estoile writes with a mixture of awe and disapproval.
The journal of L’Estoile mentions the production of eighty new ballets during the twenty-one years of the reign.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "estoile" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
