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hauriant

[ hawr-ee-uhnt ]

adjective

Heraldry.
  1. (of a fish) represented as erect, with the head upward:

    a dolphin hauriant.



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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of hauriant1

1565–75; variant of haurient < Latin haurient- (stem of ³ó²¹³Ü°ù¾±Å§²Ô²õ ) drawing, scooping up, present participle of ³ó²¹³Ü°ùÄ«°ù±ð; haustellum, -ant, -ent
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Example Sentences

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On the trees round the ford there were hanging rusty helms and melancholy shields—sixty-four of them, with their bends and chevrons and luces hauriant and merles and eagles displayed and lions passant guardant looking desolate and abandoned.

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The "three luces hauriant argent" were the arms borne by the Charlecote Lucys, and the dramatist's prolonged reference in this scene to the "dozen white luces" on Justice Shallow's "old coat" fully establishes Shallow's identity with Lucy.

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On an escutcheon a herring hauriant; the only instance of this bearing in connection with Yarmouth.

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The ‘three luces hauriant argent’ were the arms borne by the Charlecote Lucys, and the dramatist’s prolonged reference in this scene to the ‘dozen white luces’ on Justice Shallow’s ‘old coat’ fully establishes Shallow’s identity with Lucy.

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Quarterly, 1 and 4 a lion rampant for Percy, 2 and 3 three luces hauriant for Lucy—Percy.

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