Lexicographical Neighbors of Gumphion
Literary usage of Gumphion
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of St. Andrews: Episcopal, Monastic, Academic, and Civil, Comprising by Charles Jobson Lyon (1843)
"Two close trumpets with mourning banners. A horse in mourning, led by footmen in
mourning. The great gumphion borne on a lance. ..."
2. Ecclesiastical Chronicle for Scotland by James Frederick Skinner Gordon (1875)
"Over the grave a canopy was erected, covered with black cloth, and adorned with
the gumphion, standards, banners, &c., which had been carried in the ..."
3. The Surgeon's Daughter and Castle Dangerous: With General Glossary by Walter Scott (1879)
"... who volunteer vocal music for money about the time of Christmas and New Tear's
Day. Gully, large knife. gumphion, a funeral banner. Guse, goose. ..."
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