heraldry
IPA: hˈɛrʌɫdri
noun
- (uncountable) The profession or art of devising, granting and blazoning coats of arms, tracing genealogies and ruling on questions of protocol or rank.
- (countable) An armorial ensign along with its history and description.
- (uncountable) Pageantry.
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Examples of "heraldry" in Sentences
- Alfred plans to purchase pink PP-5 pellets, wrap them in Dutch heraldry:
- As a matter of fact the six-pointed star was not adopted because of its use in English heraldry, while in Holland and
- Well, one of the very first things you learn about heraldry, is that it’s not a specific image that is linked to a particular person.
- More trivia: in heraldry, a vertical stripe on a flag is called a "pale" (the French tricolour is made up of three pales, for example).
- The auriferata (which is made of cloth of gold or of thin gold plates, and is not jewelled) is the one always used in English heraldry for an Anglican bishop or archbishop.
- Thus it is difficult to prove that the heraldry is the origin of totemism, which is just as likely, or more likely, to have been the origin of savage heraldic crests and quarterings.
- She may be of far less importance in the great world of society than some Mrs. Smith, who, having nothing else, is set down as of the highest rank in that unpublished but well-known book of heraldry which is so thoroughly understood in America as a tradition.
- Properly speaking, in heraldry, the Battle Flag was a darkish blue Cross of St. Andrew set in a red field with 13 stars inside the cross (actually, this isn’t proper heraldic terminology, but that’s neither an academic speciality nor personal interest of mine).
- 'gagliarda' by Villani, that these groups of piles, pales, bends, and bars, were called in English heraldry 'Restrial bearings,'"in respect of their strength and solid substance, which is able to abide the stresse and force of any triall they shall be put unto."
- This is one of those passages for which the editor of that review has merited an abatement in heraldry, no such writing ever having been written; and indeed, by other like assertions of equal veracity, the gentleman has richly entitled himself to bear a gore sinister tenne in his escutcheon.
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