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surgerant

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surgerant (not comparable)

  1. (heraldry) Rising.
    • 1716, John Davies, A display of herauldry, of [...] North Wales, page 51:
      Giffith Goch Lord of Rhos and Rhyvoning, Lineally Descended from Marchudd in the eleventh degree, he bore Or a Griffen Surgerant or Rising Gules […]
    • 1851, Archaeologia Cambrensis: the journal of the Cambrian Archaeological Association. 1851, page 76:
      Griffin. Gul. 1 surgerant or.—Llawdder. […]
    • 1887, Jacob Youde William Lloyd, The History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher, and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fadog: And the Ancient Lords of Arwystli, Cedewen, and Meirionydd, page 194:
      Or, a falcon surgerant azure, for Tegerin ab Carwed, […]
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