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- noun Plural form of
lucy .
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Examples
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You lose serious cred when your cellmate trades you for a pack of gum rather than a handful of lucies.
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G. de Lucy has for his arms _three lucies_ -- fish now known as pike: Robert Quency has a _quintefueil_ -- a flower of five leaves: Thos.
The Handbook to English Heraldry Charles Boutell 1844
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Percy modern: _second and third, gu., three lucies haurient arg.
The Handbook to English Heraldry Charles Boutell 1844
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Then there are the hammers (martels) of Martell, the oak of Oksted, the three pike (lucies) of Lucy, and the horseshoes (fers) borne by Montgomery as the tenant of Ferrers.
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Fish are likewise a common source for the punster and apart from the barbels and lucies already mentioned, we find eels for Ellis, trout for Troutbeck, gudgeon for the French family of Goujon, a dolphin between three ears of wheat for John Fyshar ( "fish-ear"), Bishop of Rochester, and of course the dolphin in the arms of the Dauphin of France.
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