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Red hand

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(Her.) a left hand appaumé, fingers erect, borne on an escutcheon, being the mark of a baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; - called also Badge of Ulster.

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The landlady held up a long, lean, red hand, in a sorrowful and sisterly protest.
Law and the Lady by Collins, Wilkie View in context
That blood- red hand of Sir Pitt Crawley's would be in anybody's pocket except his own; and it is with grief and pain, that, as admirers of the British aristocracy, we find ourselves obliged to admit the existence of so many ill qualities in a person whose name is in Debrett.
Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context
Some had the stamp of a red hand across their mouths, a sign that they had drunk the life-blood of a foe!
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context
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