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pheon

[ fee-on ]

noun

, Heraldry.
  1. a charge representing an arrowhead with widely spread barbs.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of pheon1

First recorded in 1480–90; earlier feon, of uncertain origin
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Example Sentences

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 crest was a boar's head erased, azure, langued gules, pierced with a pheon.

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