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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 105 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LAMB (a word See also:common to See also:Teutonic See also:languages; cf. Ger. Lamm)  , the See also:young of See also:sheep . The See also:Paschal See also:Lamb or Agnus Dei is used as a See also:symbol of Jesus See also:Christ, the Lamb of See also:God (See also:John i . 29), and " lamb," like " See also:flock," is often used figuratively of the members of a See also:Christian See also:church or community, with an allusion to Jesus' See also:charge to See also:Peter (John xxi . 15) . The " lamb and See also:flag " is an heraldic See also:emblem, the See also:dexter fore-See also:leg of the lamb supporting a See also:staff bearing a banner charged with the St See also:George's See also:cross . This was one of the crests of the Knights See also:Templars, used on See also:seals as See also:early as 1241; it was adopted as a badge or See also:crest by the See also:Middle See also:Temple, the Inner Temple using another crest of the Templars, the winged See also:horse or See also:Pegasus . The old See also:Tangier See also:regiment, now the See also:Queen's Royal See also:West See also:Surrey Regiment, See also:bore a Paschal Lamb as its badge . From their See also:colonel, See also:Percy See also:Kirke (q.v.), they were known as Kirke's See also:Lambs . The exaggerated reputation of the regiment for brutality, both in Tangier and in See also:England after Sedgmoor, See also:lent See also:irony to the See also:nickname .

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