sanglant

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English

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Adjective

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sanglant (not comparable)

  1. (heraldry) Bloodstained.
    • 1830, Thomas Robson (engraver.), The British herald, or Cabinet of armorial bearings of the nobility & gentry of Great Britain & Ireland:
      BERSANTER , or BERSAWTER, ar. three boars' heads sanglant, sa.
    • 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 38:
      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!
    • 1853, Bernard Burke, Index to Burke's dictionary of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, page 162:
      Crest—A falcon, wings elevate or, belled gu., preying upon a wing, arg., sanglant, ppr.
    • 1855, Francis Edward Smedley, Mirth and metre by F.E. Smedley and E.H. Yates, page 69:
      A 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."

French

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Late Latin sanguilentus, alternative form of sanguinolentus (whence sanguinolent).

Adjective

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sanglant (feminine sanglante, masculine plural sanglants, feminine plural sanglantes)

  1. bloody (covered in blood), gory
  2. (figurative) fierce, extremely violent
  3. (literary) blood-red
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

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sanglant

  1. present participle of sangler

Further reading

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Old French

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Alternative forms

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Adjective

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sanglant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular sanglant or sanglante)

  1. bloody (covered in blood)

Descendants

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  • French: sanglant