dragon's head
Appearance
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]- Alternative form of dragonhead (“flowering plant”)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dragon, head.
- 1780, Joseph Edmondson, A Complete Body of Heraldry, page 103:
- Or, a cross engrailed gu.—Crest, a dragon's head and wings per pale or and gu. on his breast a cinquefoil. Hawte.
Further reading
[edit]- 1847, William Sloane Evans, A Grammar of British Heraldry, consisting of “Blason” and “Marshalling,” with an introduction on the rise, origin, and progress of symbols and ensigns, page 33:
- "DRAGON'S HEAD." "JACYNTH." "TENNE or BRUSK." This colour needs not much description , inasmuch as it is seldom seen in the Armoury of our country. It is blazoned in Heraldry by 1. Dragon's Head. 2. Jacynth. 3. Tenne or Brusk […]