Lexicographical Neighbors of Bowgets
Literary usage of Bowgets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The curiosities of heraldry by Mark Antony Lower (1845)
"All these bearings are emblematical of the crusades; and the water-bowgets are
a play upon the name. "In the hall of the manor-house of Newton, ..."
2. English Surnames: An Essay on Family Nomenclature, Historical, Etymological by Mark Antony Lower (1849)
"... are three water-bowgets, 'tres boutz/ and Mr. Montagu thinks the name was
taken from the bearings.* The six swallows (in French hirondelles) in the arms ..."
3. English Surnames: An Essay on Family Nomenclature, Historical, Etymological by Mark Antony Lower (1849)
"... three water-bowgets, ' tres boutz/- and Mr. Montagu thinks the name was taken
from the bearings.* • The six swallows (in French hirondelles) in the arms ..."
4. Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society by Middlesex Local History Council (1875)
"Gwillim in his quaint fashion thus gives the coat—" He beareth, Argent, a fesse
barry or and argent, between three water bowgets sable, by the name of ..."
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