Caboched

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 609
A heraldic crest depicting a stag's head with antlers, facing left.
Stag's Head caboched.

Caboched, or CABOSSED, an heraldic term, from the old French word caboche, 'the head.' When the head of an animal is borne, without any part of the neck, and exhibited full in face (or affronté), it is said to be caboched.

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