morné
adjUK /mɔːneɪ/ · US /moɹ.neɪ/
Etymology From French morné. Possibly doublet of mourn.
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Government, Heraldry, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Monarchy, Nobility, Politics Rampant without teeth, beak, tongue, claws, etc.
Attitude of beasts
- A lion morné appears as a canting charge in the coat of the old French family of DE MORNAY : - Fascé d'argent, et de gueules, au lion morné de sable couronné d'or brochant sur le tout. I have noticed that the lion morné occurs in the arms of several old Breton families, KERBOURIOU, KERBESCAT, KERANGUEN, etc.1892, John Woodward, George Burnett, A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 218:
- […] Self-appointed 'reformers' of heraldic terminology will contend that since lions morné and lions eviré have have barely an existence in current armory, the words themselves are mere textbook fill-up […]1963, Julian Franklyn, Shield and Crest: An Account of the Art and Science of Heraldry, page 92: