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Definition of Mullets
1. mullet [n] - See also: mullet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mullets
Literary usage of Mullets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Ordinary of Arms Contained in the Public Register of All Arms and by James Balfour Paul (1893)
"Az. three mullets in fess arg., in base as many besants in fess, ... Az.
three mullets arg., in the fess point a cross of the second surmounted of a saltire ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"Strabo is equally explicit in his account of the ' dug mullets ' of Narbonne,
long esteemed one of the principal wonders of the Keltic coast. ..."
3. The British Herald; Or, Cabinet of Armorial Bearings of the Nobility ...by Thomas Robson by Thomas Robson (1830)
"gu. a chev. paly of eight, or and az. betw. three mullets ar.—Crest, a griffin's
head erased sa. collared gemel of three pieces, the middle or, ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"All the species of Bed mullets seem to be esteemed as food ; but none equal in
... In our times red mullets have justly maintained their value as a delicacy ..."
5. Display of Heraldry by William Newton (1846)
"Argent, a chevron gules between three mullets azure, appertains to the name of
Brodie; Argent, a chevron sable between three mullets gules, to the name of ..."
6. 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)
"Arg. a chev. betw. in chief two pierced mullets and in base an annulet all sa.
Plumptre. ... Or a chev. betw. three pierced mullets az. Crackenthorpe. ..."
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