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Popinjay
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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(0. Fr. papegai, or popingay, onomatopoeic, original), an old name for a parrot. Except in its transferred sense of a dressed-up, vain or conceited, empty-headed person, the word is now only used historically of a representation or image of a parrot swinging from a high pole and used as a mark for archery or shooting matches. This shooting at the popinjay (see Archery) was formerly a favourite sport. "Popinjay" is still the proper heraldic term for a parrot as a bearing or charge.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Popinjay'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/p/popinjay.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Popinjay'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/p/popinjay.html. 1910.
