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

But for the documentary’s heraldry of this little Broadway darling, it also isn’t that interested in it; the story of the play is briefly and haphazardly slotted into the larger narrative.

From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 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

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

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

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

Another arrives from Philadelphia, equally fortified in local heraldries unknown in Boston.

From Oldport Days by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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