Other forms: chevrons
A chevron is a V-shaped stripe repeated in a band. Chevron stripes, a chevron pattern, chevron markings.
On a uniform sleeve chevrons show rank, and how many and which way up depends on the service. On roads they mark a bend or, in a line up a motorway, a safe following distance. In heraldry the chevron is one of the basic charges. Note that the name comes from a roof rafter.
1nounchevronA V-shaped stripe repeated in a band.
“The scarf was knitted in a pattern of red and white chevrons.”
chevron is a pattern.
Old French chevron means a rafter, from Latin caper, a goat, by way of the shape of a shallow roof.
Vulgar Latin
*capriō
Old French
chevron
Middle English
cheveroun
English, today
chevron
From Middle English cheveroun, from Old French chevron, from Vulgar Latin capriō, from capreus, from caper. From Middle English cheveroun, from Old French chevron, the mark so called because it looks like rafters of a shallow roof, from Vulgar Latin capriō, from Latin caper* (“goat”), the likely connection between goats and rafters being the animal's horns.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA