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- adjective heraldry
Leaping away from each other; said of two figures on acoat of arms .
Etymologies
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counter- + salient
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British desired to join them and make what might be termed a countersalient, or a salient running into the original salient of the Germans.
The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 12) Neuve Chapelle, Battle of Ypres, Przemysl, Mazurian Lakes Francis Trevelyan Miller 1902
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