DANDEL YON. Fr . Bent de lion, "lions tooth ;" probably from the formidable character of the first M'ho bore it. So CcEur do Lion, Front de Breuf, &c. This fixmily, of Norman origin, were great proprietors in the Isle of Thanet, and became extinct about the beginning of Edw. IV. See Lewis's Isle of Tenet, 1723,

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