segreant

[seg-ree-uhnt]

adjective

Heraldry.

1. (of a griffin) rampant.

Word History and Origins

Origin of segreant¹

First recorded in 1540–50; earlier sergreant; of uncertain origin

Example Sentences

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.

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Most charmingly, there is an array of heraldic beasts: lions passant, dragons rampant, griffins segreant and more.

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Ermine, on a chief sable, two griffins segreant combatant argent.

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A griffin rampant, segreant, gules.

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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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