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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 89 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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POPINJAY (O. Fr. papegai, or popingay, onomatopoeic,
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original)  , an old name for a
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parrot . Except in its transferred sense of a dressed-up, vain or conceited, empty-headed
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person, the word is now only used historically of a
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representation or
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image of a parrot swinging from a high
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pole and used as a
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mark for
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archery or
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shooting matches . This shooting at the
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popinjay (see ARCHERY) was formerly a favourite
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sport . " Popinjay " is still the proper heraldic
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term for a parrot as a bearing or
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charge .

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