Meanings
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BERSANTER , or BERSAWTER, ar. three boars' heads sanglant, sa.
1830, Thomas Robson (engraver.), The British herald, or Cabinet of armorial bearings of the nobility & gentry of Great Britain & Ireland3 more examples
The couchant lion armed and langued, with his paw upon the open book, is indeed, the crest; but what a shield — Tincture upon tincture; azure: a cross sanguine, with a lamb sanglant in the dexter chief!
1843, The British Magazine and Monthly Register of Religious and Ecclesiastical Information, Parochial History, and Documents Respecting the State of the Poor, Progress of Education, &c, page 38Crest—A falcon, wings elevate or, belled gu., preying upon a wing, arg., sanglant, ppr.
1853, Bernard Burke, Index to Burke's dictionary of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, page 162A large shield, in the centre whereof was depicted / A hand lately severed, - the artist, addicted / ('Twas De Rodon bimself) to pre-Raphaelite rules, / Had made the wrist "sanglant" with drops from it "gules."
1855, Francis Edward Smedley, Mirth and metre by F.E. Smedley and E.H. Yates, page 69
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