heraldry

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

Interestingly, dragons of yore had to be dominated or defeated; their occasional use in heraldry and art was meant to impress and inspire awe.

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2022

It is a signature feature of French heraldry.

From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2022

Like so much else, heraldry ended at the Wall.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

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

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