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"A female given name from Latin."
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"Luna"
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"ref": "1693, Richard Blome, The Art of Heraldry, in two parts ... second edition ..., pages 76-77",
"text": "4. Luna, a Mantle of Estate, Mars doubled Ermine, ouched Sol, garnished with Strings fastned thereunto fretways dependent, and tasselled of the same. [...] These Arms do belong to the Town of Beckbock in Wales.",
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"ref": "1718, Samuel Kent, The Grammar of Heraldry … Second Edition",
"text": "George [...] Ist. Mars, three Lions passant guardant in Pale Sol, for the Arms of England, Impal'd with Scotland, i.e. Sol, a Lion rampant within a double Tressure counterflory Mars. 2d. Jupiter, three Fleurs de Lis Sol, for the Arms of France. 3d. Jupiter, an Irish Harp Sol, stringed Luna, for Ireland. 4th. Seme party per Pale, and per Chevron enarche, in the Ist Mars, two Lions passant guardant Sol, for Brunswick. In the 2d Partition Sol, semy of Hearts Mars, and a Lion rampant Jupiter, armed and langued of the First, for Luneburg. The base is Mars, a Horse currant Luna, over these last on an Inescocheon, Constantine's Crown.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1735, Francis Nichols, The Irish Compendium … vol. III of the British Compendium, second edition, page 80",
"text": "8. Tierce in Mantle, first Mars, two Lions passant-guardant in pale, Sol, for Brunswick; 2d Sol, Semi of Hearts proper, a Lion rampant Jupiter, for Lunenburgh; 3d, ente en Point, Mars, an Horse currant Luna, for Saxony.",
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"ref": "1737, Benjamin Martin, Bibliotheca Technologica: Or, a Philological Library, page 631",
"text": "The third, the Ensign of Ireland, which is, Jupiter, an Harp Sol, stringed Luna.",
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"politics"
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"Silver."
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