insignia

[ UK /ɪnsˈɪɡniɐ/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˈsɪɡˌniə/ ]
NOUN
  1. a badge worn to show official position
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How To Use insignia In A Sentence

  • burse" (Lat. _bursa_, Gr. [Greek: borsa], bag of skin) is particularly used of the embroidered purse which is one of the insignia of office of the lord high chancellor of England, and of the pouch which in the Roman Church contains the "corporal" in the service of the Mass. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
  • Down below, a mass of brank-ursine formed as it were a pedestal, from the midst of which sprang scarlet geum, rhodanthe with stiff petals, and clarkia with great white carved crosses, that looked like the insignia of some barbarous order. La faute de l'Abbe Mouret
  • There are various classes of Secular Abbots; some have both jurisdiction and the right to use the pontifical insignia; others have only the abbatical dignity without either jurisdiction or the right to pontificalia; while yet another class holds in certain cathedral churches the first dignity and the privilege of precedence in choir and in assemblies, by reason of some suppressed or destroyed conventual church now become the cathedral. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
  • Was it not enough that, like the other insignia, it should be an emblem of scorn and mockery, since that was their aim?
  • A third man stood there; black tracksuit without insignia, balaclava mask covering the head.
  • He ignored Sir Ralph's corpse but lifted back the insignia over the hospitaller's and the canvas sheet which lay underneath.
  • The insignia on his kepi, the hat unique to the French military, is torn away and thrown into the dirt. Emancipation
  • Like the pillow the white on white design and three flag insignia is classic, elegant, and free of worry as the pillow features double stitching ensuring a sealed hypoallergenic pillow that no down will escape. A “Spruce Goose” of a Pillow
  • Another saddle had Sir Gavlok Whitfell's pierced cinquefoil insignia. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
  • The US system of rank badges and insignia, introduced in the early 19th century, is highly distinctive, and instructive.
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