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語源

From French crancelin, from German Kränzlein (“small garland”).

名詞

crancelin (複数形 crancelins)

1. (heraldry) A chaplet of rue, as used as a charge on the arms of Saxony.
   • 1914, Charles Boutel & AC Fox-Davies, The Handbook to English Heraldry, page 151:

     A chaplet of rue, sometimes called a crancelin, is blazoned bend-wise in the shield of Saxony – Barry often or and sa., over all a chaplet of rue vert.

   • 1991, Jiří Louda & Michael Maclagan, Lines of Succession, page 204:

     His arms show the crancelin of Saxony impaled with the crossed swords of the Marshalcy of the Empire which went with the Saxon Electorate.

   • 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 565:

     The crancelin, running from upper left to bottom right, took the form of a crenellated garland in deep green.