piety : Idioms & Phrases
Mount of piety
- . See
Mont de piété .
Webster 1913
Pelican in her piety
- (in heraldry and symbolical art), a representation of a pelican in the act of wounding her breast in order to nourish her young with her blood; a practice fabulously attributed to the bird, on account of which it was adopted as a symbol of the Redeemer, and of charity.
