sanglant

English

Adjective

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɑ̃.ɡlɑ̃/

Etymology 1

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

Adjective

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

• ensanglanter

Related terms

• sang

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

sanglant

1. present participle of sangler

Further reading

• “sanglant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Old French

Alternative forms

• senglant

Adjective

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

1. bloody (covered in blood)

Descendants

• French: sanglant