lunel

See also: Lunel

English

Etymology 1

From Lunel, a town in southern France.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /luːˈnɛl/

Noun

lunel (uncountable)

1. A type of sweet muscat wine.
   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 209:

     Van looked through his raised lunel at the honeyed sun.

The coat-of-arms of Lunay, bearing a lunel.

Etymology 2

From French lunel, a heraldic term based on lune (“moon”). Compare Spanish lunel, Italian lunello.

Noun

lunel (plural lunels)

1. (heraldry) A charge formed by four crescents in cross with their horns pointing inwards.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French lunel, a heraldic term based on lune (“moon”), from Latin lūna. Compare Italian lunello.

Noun

lunel m (plural luneles)

1. (heraldry) lunel

Further reading

• “lunel”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10