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GIRONNE

Volume 7 · 81 words · 1797 Edition

or Gironny, in heraldry, a coat of arms divided into girones, or triangular figures, meeting in the centre of the shield, and alternately colour and metal.

GISCO, son of Himilco the Carthaginian general, was banished from Carthage by the influence of his enemies. Being afterwards recalled, he was made general in Sicily against the Corinthians, about 309 years before the Christian era, and by his success and intrepidity he obliged the enemies of his country to sue for peace. See Carthage.