disclosed

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Verb

disclosed

1. simple past and past participle of disclose

Adjective

disclosed

1. (heraldry, of wings) Expanded, spread; (of a winged creature) with its wings extended or spread.
   • 1854, Hugh Clark, Thomas Wormull, An Introduction to Heraldry, page 137:

     Azure, a harpy with her wings disclosed, her hair flotant or, armed of the same. This coat stands in Huntingdon church.

   • 1880, Thomas Spencer Baynes, The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, page 700:

     Culcheth of Culcheth: argent, an eagle disclosed, preyant on a child in a mantle gules, wattled or. This is the crest of Stanley, well known in Lancashire as the bird and bantling.

   • 1967, Colin Clair, Unnatural History: An Illustrated Bestiary:

     Guillim [in Display of Heraldry] shows another coat of arms, a shield with "a Harpey disclosed in her wings."

Usage notes

• Some sources specify that a bird with wings disclosed has them pointing downward.