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

Like so much else, heraldry ended at the Wall.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

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

From Oldport Days by Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

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

We show it with black feathers and black horses; we show it with black dresses and black heraldries; we show it with costly obelisks and sculptures of sorrow, which spoil half of our beautiful cathedrals.

From Pearls of Thought by Ballou, Maturin Murray