in complement

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in complement

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Government, Heraldry, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Monarchy, Nobility, Politics Of a moon Full and fully illuminated.

The sixth Bishop of Ely had very curious arms, for he bore both sun and moon on his shield, the sun "in his splendour" and the moon "in her complement".1912, Allen Phoebe, Peeps at Heraldry, page 33:

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