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(heraldry) Having hair or a mane of a specified tincture, different from that of the body.
1844, John Burke, Bernard Burke, Encyclopædia of Heraldry, Or General Armory of England, Scotland and Ireland: Comprising a Registry of All Armorial Bearings from the Earliest to the Present Time, Including the Late Grants by the College of Arms:
Sa. three boys' heads couped at the shoulders ppr. having snakes enwrapped about their necks vert ; (sometimes borne with a chev. ar.) Crest - A boy's head as in the arms, (sometimes crined or.) VAUGHAN
1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire:
a crested bird called in Zemblan sampel (‘silktail’), closely resembling a waxwing in shape and shade, is the model of one of the three heraldic creatures (the other two being a reindeer proper and a merman azure, crined or) in the armorial bearings of the Zemblan King, Charles the Beloved
