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
These are disparate images, some historical, some contemporary, all variations on the circle: heraldry, Aztec symbols, currency, images of the sun and of star patterns, a manhole cover, a disco ball.
From New York Times ● May 21, 2024
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
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
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
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
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 Frederic Harrison
Another arrives from Philadelphia, equally fortified in local heraldries unknown in Boston.
From Oldport Days by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Vocabulary lists containing heraldry
Six Crimson Cranes
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