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English
Adjective
sanglant (not comparable)
- (heraldry) Bloodstained.
1830, Thomas Robson (engraver.), The British herald, or Cabinet of armorial bearings of the nobility & gentry of Great Britain & Ireland:BERSANTER , or BERSAWTER, ar. three boars' heads sanglant, sa.
1843, The British Magazine and Monthly Register of Religious and Ecclesiastical Information, Parochial History, and Documents Respecting the State of the Poor, Progress of Education, &c, page 38:The couchant lion armed and langued, with his paw upon the open book, is indeed, the crest; but what a shield — Tincture upon tincture; azure: a cross sanguine, with a lamb sanglant in the dexter chief!
1853, Bernard Burke, Index to Burke's dictionary of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, page 162:Crest—A falcon, wings elevate or, belled gu., preying upon a wing, arg., sanglant, ppr.
1855, Francis Edward Smedley, Mirth and metre by F.E. Smedley and E.H. Yates, page 69:A large shield, in the centre whereof was depicted / A hand lately severed, - the artist, addicted / ('Twas De Rodon bimself) to pre-Raphaelite rules, / Had made the wrist "sanglant" with drops from it "gules."
French
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Inherited from Late Latin sanguilentus, alternative form of sanguinolentus (whence sanguinolent).
Adjective
sanglant (feminine sanglante, masculine plural sanglants, feminine plural sanglantes)
- bloody (covered in blood), gory
- (figurative) fierce, extremely violent
- (literary) blood-red
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Participle
sanglant
- present participle of sangler
Further reading
Old French
Adjective
sanglant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular sanglant or sanglante)
- bloody (covered in blood)
Descendants