{{short description|Mythical heraldic beast in the form of a "man-tiger or man-lion"}} [[File:RadfordArms.png|thumb|200px|Arms of Radford of Radford: ''Sable, three lampagoes passant coward in pale argent''<ref name=Pole>{{cite book |author-link=William Pole (antiquary) |author=Sir William Pole |title=Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon |editor-link=Sir John de la Pole, 6th Baronet |editor=Sir John-William de la Pole |location=London |year=1791 |page=499 |quote=Radford of Radford: Sable, 3 lampagoes, [man tygers, with lion's bodyes and men's faces] passant [in pale] cowarde argent}}</ref>]] A '''lampago''' or '''lympago'''<ref>{{cite web | title=A Complete Guide to Heraldry | website=Wikisource|author= Arthur Charles Fox-Davies | year=1909| url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:A_Complete_Guide_to_Heraldry.djvu/214 |page=186| access-date=2020-12-08}}</ref> is a mythical heraldic beast in the form of a "man-tiger or man-lion" with the body of a tiger or lion and the head of a man.<ref name=Pole/> It should be distinguished from similar mythical heraldic beasts the manticore and the satyral.<ref>{{cite book |last=Dennys |first=Rodney |title=The Heraldic Imagination |location=London |publisher=Barrie & Jenkins |year=1975 |page=114}}</ref>
The best-known usage of the lampago in heraldry is in the arms of the ancient Radford family of the manor of Radford in the parish of Plymstock in Devon: ''Sable, three lampagoes passant in pale coward argent''.<ref name=Pole/>
==See also== * Sphinx
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