hirondelle

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Bevis Tower, science declares, was named probably after another Bevis--there was one at the Battle of Lewes, who took prisoner Richard, King of the Romans, and was knighted for it--while Arundel is a corruption of "hirondelle," a swallow.

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  1. In heraldry, a swallow used as a bearing. The swallow, or hirondelle, forms the very early coat of the Arundels. Encyc. Brit., XI. 701.

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  1. French, a swallow, diminutive, from Latin hirundo, a swallow: see hirundo.
 

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