Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In heraldry, same as
salient .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Her.) Same as
salient .
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- adjective heraldry Alternative form of
salient .
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Examples
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Bush walks, talks, acts and thinks like a draft-dodging, elitist college frat boy and this new book just validates these saliant observations ...
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In the fanart and covers this is often attempted solved by pulling the wolf up to a rampant or saliant position.
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And of course in traditional heraldry grey, white and silver would all be argent, making the Stark arms blazon: "Argent, a wolf argent courantor saliant"
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There are two opposing strands which I think are both missing a saliant point.
Think Progress » New Woodward Book Details Multiple Bush Cover-Ups Over Iraq 2006
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He makes some fairly saliant points, primarily that the tolerence for civilian casualties is plummeting to the point where shady organizations can make military action quite difficult for any conventional military simply by surrounding themselves with civilian targets.
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AMBITION, _his impress a black horse saliant, with one hinder-foot upon the globe of the earth, one fore-foot stretching towards the clouds, his word_ Non sufficit orbis; _his Page_, TREACHERY, _after him, his pendant argent and azure, an armed arm catching at the sunbeams, the word in it_ Et gloriam Phoebi.
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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This saliant point terminated Barclay's command and the centre of the enemy: it was armed with a strong battery, covered by an entrenchment.
History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 Philippe-Paul S��gur 1826
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Moskwa to Borodino; their centre, from Gorcka to Semenowska, was the saliant part of their line.
History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 Philippe-Paul S��gur 1826
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When will the GOP pay for their saliant mafioso techniques?
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When will the GOP pay for their saliant mafioso techniques?
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