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Definition of Crescents
1. crescent [n] - See also: crescent
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crescents
Literary usage of Crescents
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great by John Woody Papworth (1874)
"Per fess gu. and arg. three crescents in chief of the second. ... Per fess
embattled or and gu. three crescents and as many gates counterchanged. YATE, со. ..."
2. An Ordinary of Arms Contained in the Public Register of All Arms and by James Balfour Paul (1893)
"Az. three crescents within a double tressure flory counter-flory gu. ... Gu.
three crescents arg. within a bordure invected of the second, charged with ..."
3. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1900)
"Laveran still (1899) holds that crescents alone, without the presence of other
... Canalis, who claimed to have found sporulating crescents, connected the ..."
4. Franks Bequest: Catalogue of British and American Book Plates Bequeathed to by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks, Edward Russel James Gambier Howe, British Museum Dept. of Prints and Drawings, Sidney Colvin (1904)
"Per chev. wavy az. and erminois in chief two crescents arg. and in base a ...
Per pale wavy arg. and sa. three crescents counterchanged. Reade. ..."
5. The British Herald Or, Cabinet of Armorial Bearings of the Nobility & Gentry ...by Thomas Robson by Thomas Robson (1830)
"Frampton, barry of six, gu. and ar. in chief three crescents armed gu. or. ....
Francois, or, ten crescents gn. on each, a hawk's bell ar. ..."
6. The Visitacion of Norffolk by William Harvey, Robert Cooke, John Raven, College of Arms (Great Britain) (1891)
"Paly of six sable and argent, on a chief of the second a fret between two crescents
of the first. CREST.—A stork proper, beaked, legged, ..."
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