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
That in heraldry, a bend sinister indicates bastardy.
From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2019
But the great hawks, the hounds, heraldry, tournaments—these were for Lancelot For her, unless she felt like a little spinning or embroidery, there was no occupation—except Lancelot.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
It has flaunted, emblazoned with the heraldries of France and England, in coronation ceremonies at Rheims and Westminster.
From A Problem in Modern Ethics being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists by John Addington Symonds
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 feelings excited by a landscape such as this bore a subtle resemblance to those produced in myself by the heraldries which thronged the church.
From Memoirs of Life and Literature by W. H. (William Hurrell) Mallock
Melancholy and morose, standing in their loneliness, we trim them into keeping with our wishes and so adopt them into our good graces, as ornaments of our estates, heraldries of our gentility.
From Tablets by Amos Bronson Alcott
Each empty, open casque now seems Like to the helms of heraldries, Save for two strange and livid gleams That issue forth in threatening wise.
From Enamels and Cameos and other Poems by Agnes Lee
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