morné

alternative morne · alternative mortine

1. not comparableattitude of beastsgovernmentRampant without teeth, beak, tongue, claws, etc.

   […] Self-appointed 'reformers' of heraldic terminology will contend that since lions morné and lions eviré have have barely an existence in current armory, the words themselves are mere textbook fill-up […]

   1963, Julian Franklyn, Shield and Crest: An Account of the Art and Science of Heraldry, page 92

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   A lion morné appears as a canting charge in the coat of the old French family of DE MORNAY : - Fascé d'argent, et de gueules, au lion morné de sable couronné d'or brochant sur le tout. I have noticed that the lion morné occurs in the arms of several old Breton families, KERBOURIOU, KERBESCAT, KERANGUEN, etc.

   1892, John Woodward, George Burnett, A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 218