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heraldry

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for heraldry.

Editorial note

Or imagine a European aristocrat and all that is allowed is their heraldry and genealogy.

Examples16
Definitions3
Parts of speech1

Quick take

(countable) An armorial ensign along with its history and description.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of heraldry gathered in one view.

noun

(countable) An armorial ensign along with its history and description.

noun

(uncountable) Pageantry.

noun

(uncountable) The profession or art of devising, granting and blazoning coats of arms, tracing genealogies and ruling on questions of protocol or rank.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for heraldry.

noun

(countable) An armorial ensign along with its history and description.

noun

(uncountable) Pageantry.

noun

(uncountable) The profession or art of devising, granting and blazoning coats of arms, tracing genealogies and ruling on questions of protocol or rank.

Example sentences

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Or imagine a European aristocrat and all that is allowed is their heraldry and genealogy.

2

If Joe Biden changes his heraldry, it doesn't change my post office experience one whit.

3

Apart from the legal system, chivalry, heraldry, and centuries of low-key class warfare.

4

I know a few people go off about lions in European heraldry but lions were at one point spread across Eurasia-Africa.

5

At the heart of my programming heraldry is C.

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Really, it should have a full implementation of heraldry.

7

I hadn't thought of looking it up in the context of heraldry.

8

> If Joe Biden changes his heraldry, it doesn't change my post office experience one whit.

9

How about heraldry + block mode diagram?

10

DQ was written in like 1600 but based on chivalric romances from 200-400 years earlier, where it turns out ostriches also come up from time to time, even in heraldry of some characters.

11

I admit that OBE is just a small part of the whole system of honors, but by using titles and heraldry it still helps to keep the caste system alive in the GB.

12

One of the very nice things about hipsterdom is that it has allowed us, by pretending to be ironic about it, to go back to the graphical language of the past, with roots as far back as heraldry.

Quote examples

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AKA "bend dexter", in the sense of heraldry.

2

These correspond to the classic tinctures of heraldry: the "metals" or and argent (silver and gold, conventionally depicted as white and yellow), and the "colours" gules (red), vert (green), azure (blue), purpure (purple), and sable (black).

Proper noun examples

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Heraldry is still culturally important even though we don't formalize it any more since we became independent from the UK.

2

Heraldry of the monarch also serve a function, I suppose, but it is less like a chain of command photograph and more like the US national coat of arms (or the Great Seal, which has the former on the obverse); neither of which has changed substantially (there have been some rendering tweaks) since adopted by the Congress under the Articles of Confederation in 1782.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use heraldry in a sentence?

Or imagine a European aristocrat and all that is allowed is their heraldry and genealogy.

What does heraldry mean?

(countable) An armorial ensign along with its history and description.

What part of speech is heraldry?

heraldry is commonly used as noun.