allerion

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  1. In heraldry: A bearing representing an eagle or eaglet displayed without feet or beak. More rarely, an eagle heraldically represented, but complete. Boutell.

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  1. More correctly alerion, from Old French alerion, aleiron (French alérion), from Middle Latin alario(n-), in heraldry a little eagle without beak or claws, in form suggesting L. alarius, from ala, a wing (see aisle), but prob. of other origin; perhaps ult. from Middle High German adelar, German adler, an eagle.
 

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