clymant
English
Adjective
clymant (not comparable)
- Alternative form of climant
- 1794, Philip Parsons, The Monuments and Painted Glass of Upwards of One Hundred Churches, Chiefly in the Eastern Part of Kent, […], Canterbury: […] Simmons, Kirkby, and Jones; […], page 387:
- 8 [field] “charged with a bend Argent, bearing 3 goats clymant.
- 1901, Howel Wills, Florentine Heraldry: A Supplement to the Guide-books, page 128:
- Bellincioni : Gules, a goat clymant argent. Benci : Or, two lions combatant azure, in base, a mountain of three tops of the second.
- 1978, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.); Christopher J. Brunner, Sasanian Stamp Seals in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN, page 93:
- Somewhat further removed is a stucco plaque with two goats clymant by a grapevine (Erdmann, no. 38).
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Further reading
- 1858, Ellen J. Millington, Heraldry in History, Poetry, and Romance, London : Chapman and Hall, page 381:
- CLYMANT. Salient; applied to the goat.
- 1866, Hugh Clark, An Introduction to Heraldry ... Eighteenth edition. Revised and corrected by J. R. Planché, page 108:
- CLYMANT, a term sometimes used to describe a goat when reared on its hind legs : see SALIENT.
- 1893, John Edwin Cussans, Handbook of Heraldry: With Instructions for Tracing Pedigrees and Deciphering Ancient Mss., Rules for the Appointment of Liveries, &c, page 90:
- CLYMANT : A term applied to Goats when in a rampant position.