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
Still, “we wanted the jacket to be more futuristic looking,” said Catherine Lovelady, the project manager for uniforms and heraldry cultural items for the Space Force, who worked with Ms. Roan on the design.
From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2021
Their instantly recognizable horn-heavy heraldry inspires global goose bumps in an internationally understood language, and I’m as helpless against their peals and charms as I am against, say, Rave Horse.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 2, 2021
Come-into-my-castle was a game for highborn children, one meant to teach them courtesy, heraldry, and a thing or two about their lord father’s friends and foes.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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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
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
Avoid The places where thou seest much drapery, Colours, and gold, and plumes, and heraldries, And such new-fanglements.
From Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 2 by Torquato Tasso
Another arrives from Philadelphia, equally fortified in local heraldries unknown in Boston.
From Oldport Days by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
It ever seems to me that love Should level all degrees; Pure honour, and a stainless heart Are Nature's heraldries.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Charles Rogers
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Six Crimson Cranes
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