Meanings
alternative enurney
- not comparablegovernmentCharged with animals.
He beareth Argent, a bordure quarterly, as followeth: The first Gules, enurny of three Lioncels passant guardant, Or. The second, Azure, verdoy, of as many Flowers de Lis, Or. The third as the fecond : The fourth as the first.
1638, John Guillim, A Display of Heraldrie, page 32
alternative enurney
- A bordure charged with animals; a charge or set of animals.
[…] interlaced with an enurny of lions passant of the second.
1883, Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, page 4321 more example
YONGE, V. charged with an enurny of eight lions and Az. three griffins pass. in pale arg.
1874, John Woody Papworth, An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland: Forming an Extensive Ordinary of British Armorials; Upon an Entirely New Plan ..., page 988
Origin
- Anglo-Normanenorné
- Englishenurny
From Anglo-Norman enorné, enourné, variant forms of aurné, aourné, from aurner (“to adorn, decorate, endow”); compare anorn, enorn from the same nasal variants.
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