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en soleil

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[ahn saw-lay] / ɑn sɔˈleɪ /

adjective

Heraldry.
  1. (of a charge) surrounded by rays, as of the sun.

    a white rose en soleil.


Etymology

Origin of en soleil

< French: literally, in (the form of the) sun


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The rose en soleil that wrought us so much evil at Mortimer’s Cross? 

From Grisly Grisell by Charlotte Mary Yonge

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