How To Use Heraldic In A Sentence
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Another modern coat which may provoke a groan is that granted in 1977 to Dr. Claude Bursill, which includes three burrs, or teasels, and the heraldic ordinary known as a fess, which resembles a horizontal slab or sill.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 1
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They also investigate the origins of various heraldic monsters, such as the basilisk (based on the hooded cobra).
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The heraldic lion across the top is holding a cocoa pod.
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With the digital addition of a unicorn's horn, the heraldic beast conjoins a singularly aristocratic symbol of Christian purity and England's national enthusiasm for horses.
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This type of pun is of course frequent in heraldic rebuses, but these almost invariably stand for personal names, although they can sometimes be identical with place names; a few also relate to dedications.
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Certainly, heraldry was known and studied in America at the time of the Revolution, as is indicated by the relatively large number of surviving silver and ceramic pieces with heraldic devices on them.
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Many designs are found on ancient tiles, such as heraldic devices, monograms, sacred symbols with texts, architectural designs, figures, and patterns.
English Villages
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The man who wore it had his heraldic device embroidered in vivid colours on his breasta chevron and a stag passant, the scutcheon supported by a branch of olive dexter and a stags horn sinister.
V. The Closet Where Monsieur Louis of France Recites His Orisons. Book X
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The heraldic devices of the lancet tops and in the tracery lights represent other of Louis's and Francoise's possessions and ancestors.
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Most noticeable, and giving name to the type, was the change of the eagle to the outstretched wing, heraldic style copied from the Great Seal of the United States.
Draped Bust Half Dime, Heraldic Eagle, 1800-1805 : Coin Guide
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Henry VII had a Welsh dragon and a wolfhound on his heraldic insignia.
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When the Scottish King James I came to the throne he ordered that the heraldic red lion of Scotland be displayed on all buildings of importance including pubs.
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This type of pun is of course frequent in heraldic rebuses, but these almost invariably stand for personal names, although they can sometimes be identical with place names; a few also relate to dedications.
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Any heraldic information that appeared at the top of the central and right lancets has been lost.
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Its own name is of heraldic origin and refers to the three roses in a bend on the shield of the counts of Wasserburg.
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Even with ‘traditional’ flag design there are places where heraldic blazonry is unable to describe a flag precisely, and we have to fall back on other methods.
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Her heraldic device was distinguished from the many others sprinkled throughout the window by its larger scale and unusual format.
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With his quiet colours he moderates the dazzle and grandeur found in the still-life pictures of his contemporary, which are as bright as heraldic blazonings.
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Here were the main exhibits, gathered with infinite care and attention to their heraldic significance.
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The heraldic embellishments of this family tree offer a particular interest in that the armorial blazonings are in accord with a decree of the French
Royal Palaces and Parks of France
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King Steven who usurped the English throne in 1096 carried the centaur as his heraldic symbol for that reason.
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Thus it is difficult to prove that the heraldry is the origin of totemism, which is just as likely, or more likely, to have been the origin of savage heraldic crests and quarterings.
Modern Mythology
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In the center of each diamond was a small shield with what I took to be a heraldic device painted on it.
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Europe, that their business was considered as one of great honor, and that they were permitted to assume what may be called heraldic devices on their standards, to carry bright-feathered plumes, and to wear gold ornaments -- such decorations being only allowed to warriors who had, by their deeds in battle, been admitted into an institution which closely resembled that of knighthood; all others dressing in plain white cloths, woven from thread obtained from the aloe.
By Right of Conquest Or, With Cortez in Mexico
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Additional heraldic shields float in the foregrounds below the flanking scenes, as well as in the lancet cusps and the adjacent tracery openings above them.
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I expected to meet a creature of almost heraldic grimness -- rampant, disregardant, gules.
Set in Silver
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I heard John Harbison, who in addition to his composing, is president of the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, tell this story: the Fund got a call from the Bush inaugural committee, who wanted to do an arrangement of "Fanfare for the Common Man" for heraldic trumpets (you know, the kind you always see in movies about the Roman Empire — hmmm).
Synchronicity
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Worn with military uniform are government decorations, insignia, distinctive devices and other military heraldic symbols established under prescribed regulations.
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Its unique decorative character has been aptly described as heraldic, "The Power of America rising from the Sea.
Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts
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Well before the renaissance, the new men were buying up land, seizing cities, glorifying themselves (the Visconti are a fine example of the breed) with new titles and heraldic blazons.
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A wrought-iron balustrade guides you up three flights beneath the ribbed gothic vaults where every surface is painted with heraldic devices, a star-studded firmament and red walls decorated with hundreds of hand-painted fleurs-de-lys.
Gothic Renaissance in London
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In the Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica (Vol. I, p. 254) the family is traced to the year 1588, and the arms given as Vair, purpure and erm on a chief gu.
Virginia and Virginians
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The untitled aristocracy have in this great work as perfect a dictionary of their genealogical history, family connexions, and heraldic rights, as the peerage and baronetage.
A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition
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They also relate to the erased heraldic ornament, and finally to the special significance that the subject-matter of the engraving might have had for their first owner.
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The book translates and compiles two older emblem books (a French and an Italian one), showing highly conventional emblems, mostly weapons, armour and various heraldic signs.
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Because of the nature of the arguments, young Heraldic trainees in their final year were brought in to serve at the table, and keep a steady supply of tea and other nonintoxicating drinks on hand.
Winds Of Fate
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An integral part of the decorative scheme of the dishes was the now erased heraldic ornament.
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Franconia; he bore (for there are diversities on this heraldic point) two axe-blades argent on a field gules, or a bunch of five flowers argent springing from a water-bouget gules; and he is said by witnesses in 1608 to have been described on his tombstone as a knight.
The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)
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According to Scotland's Lord Lyon records, heraldic seals associated with the family frequently use a stag's head cabossed as the central image associated with the coat of arms.
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After the conquest, local weavers added heraldic devices to their own decorative motifs.
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I wonder whether some standardised form of description, akin to heraldic blazon, will gradually emerge.
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the Beatles were heraldic of a new style of music
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In elite society, aristocratic funerary sculpture quickly replaced religious imagery with heraldic and symbolic devices.
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Sometimes a heraldic Chapeau replaces the Wreath, or occasionally appears between the Wreath and the Crest.
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The shield of the Papal coat of arms can therefore be described in heraldic terms as follows: ‘Gules, chape in or, with the scallop shell of the second; the dexter chape with a moor's head in natural colour, crowned and collared of the first, the sinister chape a bear trippant in natural colour, carrying a pack gules belted sable’.
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Heraldically, perhaps the nicest illustration of genteel, female armorial pride comes again from the Paston family.
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WHEREAS the Secretary of the Air Force has caused to be made and has recommended that I approve a seal the design of which accompanies and is hereby made a part of this order, and which is described in heraldic terms as follows:
EXECUTIVE ORDER 9902
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During the seventeenth century heraldic windows adorned the naves of Dutch Reform churches, a custom dating back several centuries in the Netherlands.
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Like many of the earlier heraldic flags, it seems that this form of flag originated in military use ashore.
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Over the path are slender steel arches designed to carry banners that give a festive and heraldic flavour to both internal and external paths.
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If a hallmark on a spoon is so worn you can't make it out, which side bears the heraldic device could give a clue to its date.
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Heraldic objects are of a large and increasing variety; as more arms are devised, new objects appear as charges.
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But it is chiefly on sculpture and architecture that ornamental devices act as cartouches for heraldic display.
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The room was dark, but he was finally able to make out a heraldic device stamped on a small leather coffer — a lymphad with the sail furled and oars over the side, flying a death’s-head flag: the arms of House Skellhaven.
Conqueror's Moon
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The Canadian heraldic system shares with the Scottish system the requirement that the undifferenced coat of arms is borne by one person at a time.
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The words of the heraldic blazon contained in the Order of the King in Council of Nov. 5, 1800, and announced to the nation by the Proclamation of Jan. 1, 1801, prescribes the form in which the national flag is to be constructed.
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Additional heraldic shields float in the foregrounds below the flanking scenes, as well as in the lancet cusps and the adjacent tracery openings above them.
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And he had one item, it was a plaque showing a lion rampant[Sentencedict], the heraldic symbol.
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I wonder whether some standardised form of description, akin to heraldic blazon, will gradually emerge.
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These liveries came to be distinguished by heraldic insignia and emblems.
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The device is heraldic again, but it also protects the galleried space from excessive insolation.
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The heraldic artist reconstructed this accurate description as the beautiful unicorn.
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These liveries came to be distinguished by heraldic insignia and emblems.
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Visual puns and rebuses had been popular features in the heraldic imprese or devises of France for centuries.
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A long, tapering flag bearing heraldic devices distinctive of a person or corporation.
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He had handsomely chiseled facial features, lustrous blond hair that hung that was brushed to both sides of his forehead and hung over his ears and down his neck; the Heraldic style.
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For all of that it's not a bad place to live, and that flying standard, with its strange old heraldic devices is still serving its purpose.
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No longer were social parties the old heraldic solemnities [Footnote 4] enjoined by red letters in the almanac, in which the chief objects were to discharge some arrear of ceremonious debt, or to ventilate old velvets, or to _apricate_ and refresh old gouty systems and old traditions of feudal ostentation, which both alike suffered and grew smoke-dried under too rigorous a seclusion.
Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2
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He had handsomely chiseled facial features, lustrous blond hair that hung that was brushed to both sides of his forehead and hung over his ears and down his neck; the Heraldic style.
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Le Notre's coat of arms is nothing if not a burlesque of heraldic traditions.
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Strangest of all of them is a many-tinted and puzzling waxen symbol which sums up all the internal organs of the abdomen in one bold effort of artistic condensation; a kind of heraldic, materialized stomache-ache.
Old Calabria
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There are several images, which are clearly icons, showing isolated pillars with a pair of attendant heraldic beasts.
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The work in the choir included new stalls and seats, pulpit, and throne; an altar screen of clunch, filling up the lower part of the apse; and an organ screen, also of clunch, with an open parapet, and enriched with much diaper-work and many canopies, and adorned on the west face with large shields of arms, [17] very brightly coloured, charged with the heraldic bearings of the principal subscribers.
The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See
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The tomb consists of a prominent polychromed alabaster effigy of the duke lying in state on a slab of heavy black marble surrounded by heraldic symbols.
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Four heraldic beasts - two stags, a lion and a griffin - stand guard at a stone staircase opposite the coffin.
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WHEREAS the Director of Central Intelligence has caused to be made and has recommended that I approve a seal of office for the Central Intelligence Agency the design of which accompanies and is hereby made a part of this order, and which is described in heraldic terms as follows:
EXECUTIVE ORDER 10111
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Apart from the ingenious designs, set off by the lustred tin-glaze, the specific heraldic programme gives them a unique place in Niculoso's oeuvre.
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The Lord Lyon wrote to us a year ago saying that schools with heraldic devices should get in touch to check if they were allowed to use them.
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Four heraldic beasts - two stags, a lion and a griffin - stand guard at a stone staircase opposite the coffin.
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The sides and deck-roof were of a yellow ground, and covered with paintings of flowers, leaves, fruit, insects, birds, monkeys, dogs, and cats; some of those latter animals were what in heraldic language would be called queue-fourchee.
Under the Dragon Flag
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In heraldic language, the arms of the two families are joined after a marriage, as demonstrated by the arms of Cadwalader on the left impaling those of the Lloyd family of Maryland on the right.
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As these heraldic arms became more elaborate, their description or blazon came to acquire its own rules, arcane vocabulary, and concise syntax.
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But further back there was an earl, and the family had a heraldic crest and some silver, bits of which Orwell pawned to raise money to fight in Spain.
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'Perhaps a son of Thomas Johniton, who was painter, cDgriver and japanner in Boston, and also a designer of heraldic work.
Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
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How one couchant beast, with its imperturbable gravitas, a heraldic chunk of London itself, moved without lifting a paw, from the site on the south bank of the Thames being cleared for the Festival of Britain in 1951, to Waterloo Station with its martial trappings, and on to its present eminence alongside the decommissioned County Hall.
The Festival of Britain, 60 years on
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It has three gold lions on a red background, walking with their heads turned to face out from the shield, or, in heraldic language ‘Gules, three lions passant guardant in pale Or.’
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Well before the Renaissance, the new men were buying up land, seizing cities, glorifying themselves with new titles and heraldic blazons.
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It is lighted by six windows of modern stained glass, on one side, and by the immense and magnificent arch of another window at the farther end of the room, its rich and ancient panes constituting a genuine historical piece, in which are represented some of the kingly personages of old times, with their heraldic blazonries.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863
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The heraldic devices are the least subtle aspect of the window.
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This is the heraldic description of the arms of Scotland: 'Or, a lion rampant gules, armed and langued azure, within a double tressure flory counterflory of fleur-de-lis of the second.'
Marmion
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The front of the shirts has the City's heraldic emblem of rampant boars head on a turret embossed with the white rose of Yorkshire.
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Heraldic devices shifted from the surcoat to the material covering the plates, although armour of the third period was often decorated by etching and painting.
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The chapeau is barely mentioned by Scottish heraldic writers, before Learney ascribed the chapeau to the baronage.
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Thus, when more than one different coat of arm is marshaled on a shield, through descent from heraldic heiresses, it was placed 'quarterly'.
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Symbolic carvings and heraldic devices were added to boundaries, and timberwork became more ornate.
Times, Sunday Times
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More recently, and particularly in our own Coinage, Heraldry and Art have declined together, so that feeble designs, but too commonly executed with lamentable consistency, are associated with heraldic inaccuracies which continue uncorrected to this day -- witness the _tressure of
The Handbook to English Heraldry
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It reflects much of Canterbury's early history being decorated outside and inside with the heraldic emblems of early settlers, governors and supporters of the Summit Road Scheme.
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He was known for his heraldic painting, more especially for his emblazonment of the lord mayor's state-coach.
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The anonymity guaranteed by the helm, worn on the battlefield and for the tournament, led to the adoption by knights of crests atop their helms - personal devices unique to them and one of the earliest of heraldic symbols.
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It is all the same in the end what kind of heraldic figures are represented on it, if they only indicate what is meant.
Essays of Schopenhauer
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Helen Pendennis was a member, bears for a crest, a nest full of little pelicans pecking at the ensanguined bosom of a big maternal bird, which plentifully supplies the little wretches with the nutriment on which, according to the heraldic legend, they are supposed to be brought up.
The History of Pendennis
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It's the first month of the first year of secondary school, I'm eleven, and I've got a bad pageboy haircut and an ill-fitting green blazer emblazoned with a school heraldic crest that looks like a lion being sick.
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He built hospitals and buildings for several universities, and (in more festal mood) the heraldic gates of San Marino, the strange little independent republic not far from Urbino.
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I needn't see the heraldic lion on his clothes' front to know where he came from.
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Certainly, heraldry was known and studied in America at the time of the Revolution, as is indicated by the relatively large number of surviving silver and ceramic pieces with heraldic devices on them.
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_ Depicted by early Heralds in a conventional manner, but now generally rendered more naturally, the earlier type being termed the heraldic antelope.
The Handbook to English Heraldry
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Large numbers of standards, banners, streamers, and other heraldic devices emblazoned with Spanish and English regalia were commissioned for the occasion, and the public celebrations were lavish and a spectacular success.
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Heraldically, they derive from the Azure, the lion rampant or coat of arms of the Galician Volynian Prince Lev I.
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These liveries came to be distinguished by heraldic insignia and emblems.
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Heraldic devices were by far the most popular motifs.
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This stone shows the heraldic achievement of Henry, including, significantly for us, a stag, gorged, enclosed in a fence.
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The devices of ornament can amplify, by doubling and redoubling or other types of repetition and variation, these degrees of status as in heraldic quarterings and the chevrons of rank.
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Properly speaking, in heraldry, the Battle Flag was a darkish blue Cross of St. Andrew set in a red field with 13 stars inside the cross (actually, this isn’t proper heraldic terminology, but that’s neither an academic speciality nor personal interest of mine).
Matthew Yglesias » Pro-Slavery
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The significance of this unique sculpture is uncertain but a heraldic device of the ruling elite or an aniconic symbol of a protecting deity are possibilities.
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And he had one item, it was a plaque showing a lion rampant, the heraldic symbol.
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The Shire Hall at the castle, which contains one of the biggest displays of heraldic shields in the country, is world famous and 30 years ago staged the trial of the Birmingham Six.
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It exhibits the same meticulous detail and refined finish, only varying in the addition of a lapis lazuli stand and in some minor heraldic details.
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He chose the Corbinian Bear as an heraldic device for his papal coat of arms.
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On the old motte a great keep or tower house was raised, emblazoned with an imposing heraldic panel carrying the Percy Lion.
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And for the heraldry buffs among you: The technical heraldic description of the Middleton Coat of Arms, known as a 'blazon' is
Forbes.com: News
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The tomb consists of a prominent polychromed alabaster effigy of the duke lying in state on a slab of heavy black marble surrounded by heraldic symbols.
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We have lost the heraldic and symbolic language of dressing up.
Times, Sunday Times
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The heraldic devices of the lancet tops and in the tracery lights represent other of Louis's and Francoise's possessions and ancestors.
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On the wings of the building are heraldic emblems of the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Edinburgh.
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Most charmingly, there is an array of heraldic beasts: lions passant, dragons rampant, griffins segreant and more.
NYT > Home Page
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It is well known that the gyronny is a heraldic symbol of France.
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The first and second floor fronts would have panels in terracotta red, and the Coat of Arms would be in heraldic colours.
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The storm bellowed and blazed outside, the rain strummed richly on the patio roof which the lightning illumined, and as we descended that stately stair, with its walls ramped and foliaged over with heraldic fauna and flora, I felt as never before the disadvantage of not being still fourteen years old.
Familiar Spanish Travels
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On the wings of the building are heraldic emblems of the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Edinburgh.
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That they may not be officially recognised by the new government does not affect their traditional validity or their accepted status in international heraldic, chivalric and nobiliary circles.
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This shield is distinct in scale, materials, and technique from the other heraldic devices in this window.
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a beast in a heraldic depiction.
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In elite society, aristocratic funerary sculpture quickly replaced religious imagery with heraldic and symbolic devices.
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He was perhaps at his best in heraldic drawings, as many a coat and many a delightful book-plate testify ...
On Adrian Fortescue
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the lion is rampant in this heraldic depiction
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It closed no lantern -- it obstructed no view -- and its light ribs, springing from voluted corbels, bore at each intersection, an emblazoned escutcheon, or painted heraldic device.
A Love Story
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In our own treatment of the Lions of Heraldry, whatever their attitude or tincture, whatever also the position they may occupy or the heraldic duty they may discharge, we are always to draw and to blazon them as true _heraldic Lions_, while, at the same time, in their expression and general characteristics they are to be _genuine Lions_.
The Handbook to English Heraldry
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The new decor is cool and pleasant - pale walls, nicely-spaced tables laid with what seems like red damask, rich green carpet with a heraldic design, two fresh peonies on each table.
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Sprightly angels support Francoise's massive, floating, upright heraldic device, while mournful lions stoop to stabilize Louis's drooping shield.
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The first and second floor fronts would have panels in terracotta red, and the Coat of Arms would be in heraldic colours.
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Hand drawn and printed on high quality paper using colour fast inks, the map features the heraldic crests of many famous families.
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Four heraldic beasts - two stags, a lion and a griffin - stand guard at a stone staircase opposite the coffin.
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It may be that the heraldic nature of the squirrel's significance in the painting suggested the rebus like pun to represent the place name.
