Citations:enaluron
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English citations of enaluron
- 1725, James Coats, A New Dictionary of Heraldry, page 129:
- ENALURON is a Term Guillim makes ufe of to exprefs a Bordure charg'd with Birds, as with an Enaluron of Martlets, &c. But Mackenzy justly condemns it, saying it proceeded from Ignorance of the French Tongue, Enaluron signifying in Orle, or Form of a Bordure, […]
- 1726, John Guillim, The Banner Display'd; Or, an Abridgment of Guillim; Being a Complete System of Heraldry in All Its Parts. ... By S. Kent, page 18:
- He beareth Argent, a Bordure Gules, Enaluron of Martlets Or, by the Name of Chadwick of Staffordshire. Here note, that though Guillim in the Blazon of all his charged Bordures, doth use the Word Eight, yet in my Opinion the same is utterly needless, seeing it is the Number most usually borne in Bordures, and therefore easily so to be understood: […]
- 1731, Francis Nichols, THE BRITISH COMPENDIUM, page 70:
- Argent, a Border Azure, enaluron of eight Martlets, Or. The Term Enaluron is given to eight of any Kind of Birds, which are borne in Armory, when so placed, but never to more than eight.
- 1847, Henry Gough, A Glossary of Terms Used in British Heraldry: With a Chronological Table, Illustrative of Its Rise and Progress, page 122:
- ENALURON / a term applied to a bordure charged with eight birds. A bordure enaluron of eagles, signifies a bordure charged with eight eagles, which is indeed a much better way of blazoning it.