lioncel
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Noun edit
lioncel (plural lioncels)
- (heraldry) A small lion, when one of several in a coat of arms.
References edit
- “Lioncelle” in Arthur Francis Pimbley, Pimbley’s Dictionary of Heraldry, self-published (1908), page 45: “A small lion. Specifically, a lioncelle is one of several borne in the same arms.”