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
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
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
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
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 Lee, Agnes
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 Tasso, Torquato
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 Mallock, W. H. (William Hurrell)
The passage continues with "there" and "thither" repeated eight times; it bristles with contrasts, graces and horrors, antithesis, climax, and sonorous heraldries.
From Studies in Early Victorian Literature by Harrison, Frederic
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 Rogers, Charles
Vocabulary lists containing heraldry
Six Crimson Cranes
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The Horse and His Boy
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"A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare, Act 3
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