lunel

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English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Lunel, a town in southern France.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

lunel (uncountable)

  1. A type of sweet muscat wine.
    • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 209:
      Van looked through his raised lunel at the honeyed sun.
The coat-of-arms of Lunay, bearing a lunel.

Etymology 2[edit]

From French lunel, a heraldic term based on lune (“moon”). Compare Spanish lunel, Italian lunello.

Noun[edit]

lunel (plural lunels)

  1. (heraldry) A charge formed by four crescents in cross with their horns pointing inwards.

Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French lunel,[1][2] a heraldic term based on lune (“moon”), from Latin lūna. Compare Italian lunello.

Noun[edit]

lunel m (plural luneles)

  1. (heraldry) lunel

References[edit]

  1. ^ “lunel”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
  2. ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “luna”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 713

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