pheon
[ fee-on ]
nounHeraldry.
a charge representing an arrowhead with widely spread barbs.
Origin of pheon
1First recorded in 1480–90; earlier feon, of uncertain origin
- Also called broad arrow.
Words Nearby pheon
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How to use pheon in a sentence
I have before me a coin of Stralsund, minted in the fourteenth century, with the pheon for the principal type.
Query, When was the pheon, which it is supposed to be, first used as an heraldic device?
Crest, in a mural coronet argent, a pheon sable, with a sprig of laurel issuing therefrom proper.
The Curiosities of Heraldry | Mark Antony LowerThe crest was a boar's head erased, azure, langued gules, pierced with a pheon.
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