langued
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French langue (“tongue”). See language.
Adjective
[edit]langued (not comparable)
- (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
[edit]having the tongue visible
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References
[edit]- “langued”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.