cadency
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The latest shield under it was Lionel’s—argent, a bend gules distinguished with some sort of label of cadency.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
In modern cadency it is the difference of the eighth son.
From The Handbook to English Heraldry by R. B. Utting
In modern cadency the heraldic rose is the difference of the seventh son.
From The Handbook to English Heraldry by R. B. Utting
In the third generation the mark of cadency is again superimposed upon the two preceding differences, producing, at length, unutterable confusion.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower
Shakespeare's son-in-law bore the talbots' heads only, which may merely have been a mark of cadency.
From Shakespeare's Family by C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael) Stopes
The characteristic quality is often found in an improvised arrangement of words which makes the dominant feeling that of mingling words and cadencies successfully.
From Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern Negroes by Howard W. Odum
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