langued

English

A lion azure langued gules.

Etymology

From French langue (“tongue”). See language.

Adjective

langued (not comparable)

1. (heraldry) Having the tongue visible.

   Synonym: tongued

   • 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part 1, canto 2:

     […] Armed, as heralds cant, and langued, / Or, as the vulgar say, sharp-fanged; […]

   • 1866, John Edwin Cussans, The Grammar of Heraldry:

     lions […] represented as armed and langued gules

Translations

having the tongue visible

• French: lampassé (fr)
• Italian: lampassato (it)
• Portuguese: lampassado
• Spanish: lampasado
• Swedish: med tunga

References

• “langued”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Gaulden