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Lion as Leopard

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	Saying that the lion was sometimes referred to as the "leopard" is misleading as it is its attitude which makes it a leopard. --[[User:Daniel C. Boyer\|Daniel C. Boyer]] 14:23, 15 Dec 2005 (CST)		Saying that the lion was sometimes referred to as the "leopard" is misleading as it is its attitude which makes it a leopard. --[[User:Daniel C. Boyer\|Daniel C. Boyer]] 14:23, 15 Dec 2005 (CST)
			<br>With respect, no -- it is/are the heralds who decided that the English arms were leopards (''sans'' spots): the presumed reason was to distinguish them, terminologically, from "other" lions. -- [[User:Simoncursitor\|Simoncursitor]] 05:47, 1 Feb 2006 (CST)

Daniel C. Boyer at 20:25, 15 December 2005

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			"a torso, with limbs and head arranged round it -- presumably to make out how bold a hunter the bearer of the arms must have been" -- it is by no means certain that this is the meaning of the "lion couped in all its joints" in the arms of Maitland. --[[User:Daniel C. Boyer\|Daniel C. Boyer]] 14:25, 15 Dec 2005 (CST)

			==Lion as Leopard==

	Saying that the lion was sometimes referred to as the "leopard" is misleading as it is its attitude which makes it a leopard. --[[User:Daniel C. Boyer\|Daniel C. Boyer]] 14:23, 15 Dec 2005 (CST)		Saying that the lion was sometimes referred to as the "leopard" is misleading as it is its attitude which makes it a leopard. --[[User:Daniel C. Boyer\|Daniel C. Boyer]] 14:23, 15 Dec 2005 (CST)

Daniel C. Boyer at 20:23, 15 December 2005

2005-12-15T20:23:27Z

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Saying that the lion was sometimes referred to as the "leopard" is misleading as it is its attitude which makes it a leopard. --[[User:Daniel C. Boyer|Daniel C. Boyer]] 14:23, 15 Dec 2005 (CST)