aversant

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The cap badge of the Ukrainian 101st Brigade for the Protection of the General Staff features a gauntlet aversant.

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aversant (not comparable)

  1. (heraldry) Turned to show the back: said of a hand (or gauntlet).
    • 1902, Joseph Foster, Some Feudal Coats of Arms and Others, page 204:
      [...] bore, sable three sinister gauntlets aversant [...]
    • 1979, W. E. Hampton, Memorials of the Wars of the Roses: A Biographical Guide:
      Gules, a fess azure between 4 hands (mains) sinister aversant or.

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