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Definition of Popinjays
1. popinjay [n] - See also: popinjay
Lexicographical Neighbors of Popinjays
Literary usage of Popinjays
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)
"TILES—popinjays chief of the second a rose between two escallops of the first.
... Arg. three popinjays vert (2nd and 3rd quarters of ist grand quarter), ..."
2. A Treatise on the Game Laws, and on Fisheries: With an Appendix, Containing by Joseph Chitty (1812)
"... or to kill rats or vermin, which observe; and the law is the same of hawks,
popinjays, thrushes, apes, and which are tamed ; and see in the same place ..."
3. An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great by John Woody Papworth (1874)
"Arg. a chev. gu. betw. three popinjays vert beaked and legged of the second. ...
Arg. a chev. betw. three parrots (or popinjays) sa. within a bordure engr. ..."
4. The British Herald; Or, Cabinet of Armorial Bearings of the Nobility ...by Thomas Robson by Thomas Robson (1830)
"ar. on a bend sa. three popinjays or, collared gu.— Crest, a popinjay rising or,
collared gu. Supporters, as the last. Motto, Recte et suaviter. ..."
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