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
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
Hurd is wearing a casual robe and turban, and before him are two books, one of them devoted to heraldry from which he culled the coats of arms he needed for his work.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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
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
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
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
Each empty, open casque now seems Like to the helms of heraldries, Save for two strange and livid gleams That issue forth in threatening wise.
From Enamels and Cameos and other Poems by Agnes Lee
Vocabulary lists containing heraldry
Six Crimson Cranes
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