Saltire vs Satire - What's the difference?
saltire | satire |
(heraldiccharge) An ordinary (geometric design) in the shape of an X. It usually occupies the entire field in which it is placed.
The Saint Andrew's cross, the flag of Scotland
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*{{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=October 1
, author=Tom Fordyce
, title=Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland
, work=BBC Sport
(uncountable) A literary device of writing or art which principally ridicules]] its subject often as an intended means of [[provoke, provoking or preventing change. Humour, irony and exaggeration are often used to aid this.
(countable) A satirical work.
As nouns the difference between saltire and satire
is that saltire is an ordinary (geometric design) in the shape of an X. It usually occupies the entire field in which it is placed while satire is a literary device of writing or art which principally ridicules its subject often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change. Humour, irony and exaggeration are often used to aid this.saltire
English
Noun
(en noun)Is this the end of Britishness", The Guardian , 16 September 2014:
- It was early August. In the Borders, there were few signs yet of a campaign that could take Scotland out of the United Kingdom. A large Y-E-S hung in separate letters from a tree on the road from Coldstream to Kelso. There wasn’t a N-O to match it, but Kelso town hall flew both the saltire and the union jack.
citation, page= , passage=But the World Cup winning veteran's left boot was awry again, the attempt sliced horribly wide of the left upright, and the saltires were waving aloft again a moment later when a long pass in the England midfield was picked off to almost offer up a breakaway try.}}