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
On an adjacent wall are the flags of all 54 countries in Africa, their insignia and heraldry explained.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2023
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
His steel was a deep cobalt, even the blunt momingstar he wielded with such deadly effect, his mount barded in the quartered sun-and-moon heraldry of House Tarth.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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
It has flaunted, emblazoned with the heraldries of France and England, in coronation ceremonies at Rheims and Westminster.
From A Problem in Modern Ethics being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists by John Addington Symonds
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
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
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
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