dragon's head

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English

Noun

dragon's head

  1. Alternative form of dragonhead (flowering plant)
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dragon,‎ head.
    • 1780, Joseph Edmondson, A Complete Body of Heraldry, page 103:
      Or, a cross engrailed gu.—Crest, a dragon's head and wings per pale or and gu. on his breast a cinquefoil. Hawte.

Further reading

  • 1847, William Sloane Evans, A Grammar of British Heraldry, consisting of “Blason” and “Marshalling,” with an introduction on the rise, origin, and progress of symbols and ensigns, page 33:
    "DRAGON'S HEAD." "JACYNTH." "TENNE or BRUSK." This colour needs not much description , inasmuch as it is seldom seen in the Armoury of our country. It is blazoned in Heraldry by 1. Dragon's Head. 2. Jacynth. 3. Tenne or Brusk []

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