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Crined vs Crinet - What's the difference?

crined | crinet |

As an adjective crined

is having hair or a mane of a specified tincture, different from that of the body.

As a noun crinet is

each of the small hairs growing around a hawk's cere.

crined

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (heraldry) Having hair or a mane of a specified tincture, different from that of the body.
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    crinet

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, falconry) Each of the small hairs growing around a hawk's cere.
  • A set of metal armour plating worn around a horse's neck.
  • *1999 , (George RR Martin), A Clash of Kings , Bantam 2011, p. 555:
  • *:His charger wore a blanket of enameled crimson scales and gilded crinet and chamfron, while Lord Tywin himself sported a thick ermine cloak.