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(heraldry, of wings) Expanded, spread; (of a winged creature) with its wings extended or spread. quotations examples
Azure, a harpy with her wings disclosed, her hair flotant or, armed of the same. This coat stands in Huntingdon church.
1854, Hugh Clark, Thomas Wormull, An Introduction to Heraldry, page 137
Culcheth of Culcheth: argent, an eagle disclosed, preyant on a child in a mantle gules, wattled or. This is the crest of Stanley, well known in Lancashire as the bird and bantling.
1880, Thomas Spencer Baynes, The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, page 700
Guillim [in Display of Heraldry] shows another coat of arms, a shield with "a Harpey disclosed in her wings."
1967, Colin Clair, Unnatural History: An Illustrated Bestiary