langued

English

Etymology

From French langue (“tongue”). See language.

Adjective

langued (not comparable)

(heraldry) Having the tongue visible.
- 1663, Hudibras, by Samuel Butler, 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

having the tongue visible

French: lampassé (fr)
Italian: lampassato (it)
Portuguese: lampassado
Spanish: lampasado
Swedish: med tunga

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for langued in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

Gaulden

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