Talk:urvant

RFV discussion: July–December 2023
"(heraldry) Turned upward." Mentioned in Randall Holme's 1688 Academy of Armory, but sadly I can't find uses. Possible spelling/typography variations to watch out for include interchanging u and v, -ent for -ant, -&apos;d for -ed; maybe if someone can work out the etymon we can think of other likely candidates. is semantically distant. Maybe it's a feamyng-esque variation on vertant? Heraldry has a number of words that result from misreadings. - -sche (discuss) 18:16, 5 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Could this be a misreading for curvant? Defined here as "In heraldry, curved or bowed". Benwing2 (talk) 00:36, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
 * That's quite plausible, and would also explain urved (curved)! Either Holme misread a text and entered it into his work (alphabetized under U), or the author of whatever text he read miswrote it, and everyone else followed Holme. I suspect a similar misreading is behind ogress (from ogles). - -sche (discuss) 01:06, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

urved
As above. - -sche (discuss) 18:16, 5 July 2023 (UTC)


 * RFV-failed. An old error. - -sche (discuss) 20:16, 22 December 2023 (UTC)