escarbuncle

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English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French escharboncle, see Modern French escaboucle.

Noun

escarbuncle (plural escarbuncles)

  1. (heraldry) A carbuncle.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for escarbuncle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)