langued

English

A lion azure langued gules.

Etymology

From French langue (“tongue”). See language.

Adjective

langued (not comparable)

(heraldry) Having the tongue visible.
Synonym: tongued
- 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part 1, canto 2:
  […] Armed, as heralds cant, and langued, / Or, as the vulgar say, sharp-fanged; […]
- 1866, John Edwin Cussans, The Grammar of Heraldry:
  lions […] represented as armed and langued gules

Translations

having the tongue visible

French: lampassé (fr)
Italian: lampassato (it)
Portuguese: lampassado
Spanish: lampasado
Swedish: med tunga

References

“langued”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

Gaulden

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