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

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

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

Come-into-my-castle was a game for highborn children, one meant to teach them courtesy, heraldry, and a thing or two about their lord father’s friends and foes.

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

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

Any quantity of heraldries of knaves and fainéants you may find in what they call their 'history': but this is probably the first time you ever read the name of Robert of Luzarches.

From Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens by John Ruskin

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

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