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English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman enorné, enourné, variant forms of aurné, aourné, from aurner (“to adorn, decorate, endow”); compare anorn, enorn from the same nasal variants.
Adjective
enurny (not comparable)
- (heraldry) Charged with animals.
1638, John Guillim, A Display of Heraldrie, page 32:He beareth Argent, a bordure quarterly, as followeth: The first Gules, enurny of three Lioncels passant guardant, Or. The second, Azure, verdoy, of as many Flowers de Lis, Or. The third as the fecond : The fourth as the first.
Noun
enurny
- A bordure charged with animals; a charge or set of animals.
1874, John Woody Papworth, An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland: Forming an Extensive Ordinary of British Armorials; Upon an Entirely New Plan ..., page 988:YONGE, V. charged with an enurny of eight lions and Az. three griffins pass. in pale arg.
1883, Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, page 432:[…] interlaced with an enurny of lions passant of the second.
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