issuant
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Origin of issuant
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A fabulous eagle, always represented as issuant from flames.
From The Handbook to English Heraldry by Utting, R. B.
The crest of the ancient family of De la Bere is ‘a ducal coronet or, therefrom issuant a plume of five ostrich feathers per pale argent and azure.’
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony
"A chief, undulated, argent—thereon, waves of the sea; from which, a palm-tree issuant, between a disabled ship on the dexter, and a ruinous battery on the sinister; all proper."
From The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 by Harrison, James
Or, a demi-god, sable, issuant of flames, holding in right hand a sword and in the left a bow—all proper.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard
On a chief, Nebulæ, ermine, one complete doctor, issuant, checkie, sustaining in his right hand a baton of the second.
From The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency by Trusler, John
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