heraldry
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The B-52s are heading to the UK in June, as part of their ever-extending farewell tour, and Pierson is using the trip as an excuse to indulge her fascination with British heraldry.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2026
As the remaining spellers dwindled, Shradha was given “orle,” a heraldry term that means several small charges arranged to form a border within the edge of a field.
From Seattle Times ● May 28, 2024
One day last week, Conner, the museum’s curator of uniforms and heraldry, unboxed the crosses and other artifacts in the museum’s support center in the old brig on the Marine base here.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 18, 2021
She said that the abstract set and timeless costumes — including new heraldry for Arthur’s knights — “create a tension between the past and the future.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 23, 2021
Hurd is wearing a casual robe and turban, and before him are two books, one of them devoted to heraldry from which he culled the coats of arms he needed for his work.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
We show it with black feathers and black horses; we show it with black dresses and black heraldries; we show it with costly obelisks and sculptures of sorrow, which spoil half of our beautiful cathedrals.
From Pearls of Thought by Maturin Murray Ballou
At the heart of that huge whirlwind of his, with its dusty heraldries, and phantasmal nomenclatures now become mendacious, there lay, at first, always an earnest human fact.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 02 by Thomas Carlyle
Above all, and out of his own private purse, he supported the heraldries of his dominions—the peerage, senatorial or prætorian, and the great gentry or chivalry of the Equites.
From The Caesars by Thomas De Quincey
The place had formerly been a German restaurant, with Teuton scrolls, "Ich Dien," and heraldries on its walls.
From There's Pippins and Cheese to Come by Charles S. (Charles Stephen) Brooks
Any quantity of heraldries of knaves and fainéants you may find in what they call their 'history': but this is probably the first time you ever read the name of Robert of Luzarches.
From Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens by John Ruskin
Vocabulary lists containing heraldry
Six Crimson Cranes
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