Lucy

Wednesday 26 December 2012

Thanks to the on-line OED I now know that lucy is the name of a fish—the northern pike, Esox lucius. Wikipedia adds some more detail: In heraldry, the pike is called a lucy. It is usually blazoned either naiant (swimming), embowed (bowed) or hauriant (jumping), though pairs of lucies may appear addorsed (back to back)…

Argent, two lucies addorsed azure—The arms of the town of Uusikaupunki in Finland.

The northern pike, Esox lucius. Drawing by Timothy Knepp for the US Fish & Wildlife Service National Image Library.[Wikipedia Commons].

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