Lioncelle
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Lioncelle is a noun meaning (heraldry) Alternative form of lioncel.
Meaning
(heraldry) Alternative form of lioncel.
More Meanings
- (specifically) Treated as feminine and applied figuratively to a woman; a lioness.
Example Sentences
[…] he would no more have thought of asking a young innocent girl to cast in her lot with him for better or for worse, than he would have sat down to play piquet with a boy who could not count the points of the game. Neither did the taming of a lioncelle tempt him a whit.
You could pretend that Guenever was a sort of man-eating lioncelle herself, or that she was one of those selfish women who insist on ruling everywhere. […] People who have been digested by a man-eating lioncelle tend to become nonentities—to live no life except within the vitals of the devourer.
Word Forms
- lioncelles
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include lioness, lionesses, citess, dragoness, leaderess, cittess.
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