heraldic

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(The crest is only part, and by no means the most important part, of a heraldic achievement.

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Of, or relating to heraldry or heralds.

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adjective

Of, or relating to heraldry or heralds.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for heraldic.

adjective

Of, or relating to heraldry or heralds.

Example sentences

(The crest is only part, and by no means the most important part, of a heraldic achievement.

Fix the colours, use a proper heraldic phoenix, remove the name and it could be an incredibly great flag.

Wow, in the age of affordable LLM-results, there is something heraldic to posting primitive Markov-chain results such as these.

It was a favourite form of heraldic expression used in the Middle Ages to denote surnames.

Holy Roman Empire really doted on those heraldic signs, with England and a few others, too.

This logo is also technically a swastika in the heraldic sense (four-armed cross, arms bent at 90 degrees, with rotational symmetry).

House of Stark will still be happy to hear their heraldic animal is back.

Vasa wasn't named after the royal house, it was named after the vase[0] on the heraldic symbol for the house of Vasa[1].

Maybe a photo of a couple of tourists in London next to an old building displaying a heraldic symbol that your search engine can then identify.

It’s rare that such heraldic clues survive on rural buildings.

A heraldic tree that the passing storm had left afire.

It seems that Gustav I also took the name Vasa from the heraldic symbol, though the Wikipedia article doesn't say so directly.

Quote examples

Fox-Davies proposed that, in some circumstances, white should be considered a heraldic colour, distinct from argent”, so who knows?

Every time I hear the name "Tarsnap" I think of the long skinny dragons on heraldic crests, so I'm with you thematically.

A constellation of ignited eyes that edged the ring of light all bound in a precarious truce before this torch whose brightness had set back the stars in their sockets." A "heraldic tree...left afire"?

For instance, most old heraldic crests and flags have their official formats described in plain text: "Blazon or, three lions passant guardant azure, langued and armed gules." That's the final word on the matter.

Proper noun examples

Heraldic rules should apply to flags, insofar as it is centuries of graphic design knowledge about what can be distinguished from a distance, and in low-light.