pursuivant

Example Sentences

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“Whether or not people saw them in everyday life, lions were popular in heraldry for the qualities which they could be used to represent,” wrote Mark Scott, whose title is the Bluemantle Pursuivant of Arms.

From Washington Post

One example is the character Lucas de Beaumanoir in Sir Walter Scott’s novel “Ivanhoe .” Another is the witch-smeller pursuivant in the British comedy show “Blackadder.”

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Pursuivant McCabe said people would never believe such “outlandish” things, anyway.

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"We would never allow this as a new coat of arms," said John Petrie, Rouge Croix Pursuivant of Arms at the college.

From BBC

He was dressed in what is called a tabard; but it must not be supposed, from that circumstance, that he bore the office of either herald or pursuivant, for many other classes retained that part of the ancient dress, and it was officially worn by the squires, and many of the inferior attendants of kings and sovereign princes, sometimes over armour, sometimes without.

From Project Gutenberg