Definition of "jessant" []

• Springing up or emerging; said of a plant or animal. (adjective)

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• "Heraldry — abatement, cadency, clarion, escutcheon, jessant-de-lys, rampant, talbot (I could go on for close to a thousand words as classical heraldry uses Norman French)"
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• "Major Woodford was of the best English blood and bore an ancient coat of arms, described as follows: Sa. three leopard's heads reversed gu. jessant-de-lis ar."