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English
Etymology
From Latin mus (“mouse”) + -ion (compare mouser).
Noun
musion (plural musions)
- (heradry, rare) A wild or domestic cat.
1572, John Bossewell, Workes of Armorie, Richard Totell, page 56:This beaste is called a Musion, for that he is enimie to Myse, and Rattes.
1912, George Harvey Johnston, Scottish Heraldry Made Easy, page 47:Blue, a silver cat salient (SMYTH OF BALHARY). Silver, three black domestic cats (or musions) in pale (KEATE). Green, a silver boar (or sanglier) passant (POLLARD) (Plate VII., fig. 1).
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