peann.adj.
/piːn/, U.S. /pin/ Heraldry.
A fur resembling ermine but having gold markings on a black field. Also as adj.The definitions of pean and erminois in quot. ?1720 are reversed.
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1562 G. Legh Accedens of Armory 121 The sixth doublyng, is called Pean, whiche is the field, Sable, and the pouders Or.
1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie i. iv. 14 This is blacke powdered with yellow; and in Blazon is termed Pean.
?1720 S. Kent Gram. Heraldry p. xiii Of Furrs; and they are in Heraldry, White; Ermine..; Erminois, Black powder'd with Yellow; Pean, the contrary; [etc.].
1793 J. Dallaway Inq. Origin & Progress Sci. Heraldry 406 Ermines is white, upon a sable field. Erminois and Pean are gold, and black counterchanged in the same manner, but unusual.
1864 C. Boutell Heraldry Hist. & Pop. (ed. 3) iv. 20, 4 Pean: Gold spots on a black field.
1894 H. Gough & J. Parker Gloss. Terms Heraldry (new ed.) 371 Gules, on a fesse or, between three wolf's heads erased pean five lilies slipped and inverted.
1969 J. Franklyn & J. Tanner Encycl. Dict. Heraldry 123/1 A field Or powdered with sable spots is described as ‘erminois’, and this in reverse, a field sable with Or spots gives ‘pean’.
1989 Pennsic Gathering in alt.sca (Usenet newsgroup) 9 Aug. Quarterly gules and or, three roundels counterchanged, two piles impaling the lowermost roundels pean.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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