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crancelin

crancelin noun: a chaplet of rue, as used as a charge on the arms of Saxony.

crancelin: a chaplet of rue, as used as a charge on the arms of Saxony
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Noun

crancelin (plural crancelins)

  1. A chaplet of rue, as used as a charge on the arms of Saxony.
    • A chaplet of rue, sometimes called a crancelin, is blazoned bend-wise in the shield of Saxony – Barry often or and sa., over all a chaplet of rue vert.1914, Charles Boutel, AC Fox-Davies, The Handbook to English Heraldry, page 151
    • His arms show the crancelin of Saxony impaled with the crossed swords of the Marshalcy of the Empire which went with the Saxon Electorate.1991, Jiří Louda, Michael Maclagan, Lines of Succession, page 204

Forms of crancelin

pluralcrancelins

Origin of crancelin

From French crancelin, from German Kränzlein (“small garland”).

Questions about crancelin

What does crancelin mean?
Crancelin means a chaplet of rue, as used as a charge on the arms of Saxony.
What part of speech is crancelin?
Crancelin is a noun.
What is the plural of crancelin?
The plural of crancelin is crancelins.

Words near crancelin in the dictionary

  1. Cranbrook and Sissinghurst
  2. Cranbury
  3. crance
  4. crance iron
  5. crance irons
  6. crancelin
  7. crancelins
  8. crances
  9. cranch
  10. cranched
  11. cranchee

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