Meaning & use
Pheon
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A heraldic charge shaped like a broad arrowhead with an engrailed inner edge, traditionally used to mark royal or government property.
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The family crest featured a silver pheon on a field of blue.
Historic army stores were once stamped with a pheon to show they belonged to the crown.
A note on using this word
The pheon, also called the broad arrow, was famously used to mark British government property and convict uniforms, giving rise to the phrase 'the broad arrow.'
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broad arrow
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