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

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

Childless lords sat in aged halls musing on heraldry; in secret chambers withered men compounded strong elixirs, or in high cold towers asked questions of the stars.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

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

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

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

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

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