sagittary
Americannoun
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sagittaries
plural
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of sagittary
1425–75; late Middle English < Latin: see Sagittarius
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Hence any deadly shot was called a sagittary.
From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer
Also blazoned as a sagittary, and supposed to have been a badge of King Stephen.
From The Handbook to English Heraldry by R. B. Utting
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