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in piety

in piety phrase: vulning.

in piety: vulning
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Phrase

in piety

  1. Vulning.
    • THE PELICAN is represented in both British and Foreign Armory with a bowed neck vulning (ie . wounding) her breast; [...] Argent, three pelicans in piety or, their nests vert, was borne by the Scottish family of PATTERSON.1892, John Woodward, George Burnett, A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 264
    • Argent, a pelican in piety vert. SHERBURN, St. David's 1505; Chichester 1508. Azure, a pelican in piety or. WAKERING, Norwich 1416. Fox, Exeter 1487; Bath and Wells 1492; Durham 1495; Winchester 1501.1897, William Kirkpatrick Riland Bedford, The Blazon of Episcopacy: Being the Arms Borne by Or Attributed to the Archbishops and Bishops of England and Wales with an Ordinary of the Coats Described...

Questions about in piety

What does in piety mean?
In piety means vulning.
What part of speech is in piety?
In piety is a phrase.

Words near in piety in the dictionary

  1. in person
  2. in personam
  3. in perspective
  4. in petto
  5. in phase
  6. in piety
  7. in pig
  8. in place
  9. in place of
  10. in places
  11. in plain sight

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