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

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

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

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

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

From Oldport Days by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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

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

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

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