baron and femme
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- (law, heraldry, dated) Man and wife.
- 1719, Baron and Femme: A Treatise of the Common Law Concerning Husbands and Wives :
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- 1816, Tapping Reeve, The Law of Baron and Femme, of Parent and Child, of Guardian and Ward, of Master and Servant, and of the Powers of Courts of Chancery:
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- (heraldry) The arms of a man and his wife, marshalled together.
- 1821, Alexander Jamieson, Universal Science Or the Cabinet of Nature and Art, Comprising Above One Thousand Entertaining and Instructive Facts and Experiments, page 304:
- When the coats of arms of a married couple, descended of distinct families, are to be marshalled on an escocheon, the field of their respective arms is conjoined pale-ways, and blazoned thus: parted per pale, baron and femme; first the baron's arms are to be described, then the femme's.
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