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GIRONNE

Volume 2 · 58 words · 1771 Edition

a large city and bishop's see of Spain, in the province of Catalonia, forty five miles north-east of Barcelona: E. long. 2° 35', and N. lat. 32°.

or Gironny, in heraldry, a coat of arms divided into girons, or triangular figures, meeting in the centre of the shield, and alternately colour and metal. See Plate XCVII. fig. 5.