segreant
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of segreant
First recorded in 1540–50; earlier sergreant; of uncertain origin
Example Sentences
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Even as it was once the pride of the cook pedant to carve each bird on the board with a new word for the act, so it became the delight of the pedant herald to order that the rampant horse should be “forcen�,” the rampant griffon “segreant,” the passant hart “trippant”; while the same hart must needs be “attired” as to its horns and “unguled” as to its hoofs.
From Project Gutenberg
Most charmingly, there is an array of heraldic beasts: lions passant, dragons rampant, griffins segreant and more.
From New York Times
Ermine, on a chief sable, two griffins segreant combatant argent.
From Project Gutenberg
A griffin rampant, segreant, gules.
From Project Gutenberg
O. M. Tregodecke, who beareth A. a Cheuron betweene three Buckles S. M. Spurre, G. on a Cheuron O. a rose of the first, and 2. mullets pearced S. M. Bligh, B. a Griffon segreant O. armed G. betweene 3.
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