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her·ald·ry

(hĕr′əl-drē)

n. pl. her·ald·ries

a. The profession, study, or art of devising, granting, and blazoning arms, tracing genealogies, and determining and ruling on questions of rank or protocol, as exercised by an officer of arms.

b. A branch of knowledge dealing with the history and description in proper terms of armorial bearings and their accessories.

2. Armorial ensigns or similar insignia.

3. Pomp and ceremony, especially attended with armorial trappings; pageantry.

her′ald·ist n.

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heraldry

(ˈhɛrəldrɪ)

n, pl -ries

1. (Heraldry) the occupation or study concerned with the classification of armorial bearings, the allocation of rights to bear arms, the tracing of genealogies, etc

2. (Heraldry) the duties and pursuit of a herald

3. (Heraldry) armorial bearings, insignia, devices, etc

4. (Heraldry) heraldic symbols or symbolism

5. (Heraldry) the show and ceremony of heraldry

ˈheraldist n

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her•ald•ry

(ˈhɛr əl dri)

n., pl. -ries.

1. the study of armorial bearings.

2. the practice of blazoning and granting armorial bearings, tracing and recording genealogies, recording honors, and deciding precedence.

3. a heraldic device or devices.

4. ceremonial splendor.

[1350–1400]

heraldry

1. the art of pictorial representation of genealogy, as through coats of arms, crests, etc.
2. the science of genealogy with special reference to aristocratic lineage. — herald, n. — heraldic, adj.

heraldry

noun

Quotations
"The science of fools with long memories" [J.R. Planché The Pursuivant of Arms]

Heraldry terms

achievement, annulet, argent, armes parlantes, armiger, armory, bandeau, bar, base, baton, bearing, bend, bend sinister, bezzant, bezant, or byzant, blazon, blazonry, bordure, cadency, canting arms, canton, chaplet, charge, checky, chevron, chief, cinquefoil, Clarenceux, coat armour, coat of arms, cockatrice, cognizance or cognisance, college of arms, compony or compone, coronet, couchant, crescent, crest, cross, crosslet, crown, dexter, difference, dimidiate, dormant, eagle, embattled, emblazon, ermine, escutcheon, falcon, fesse or fess, field, fillet, fleur-de-lis or fleur-de-lys, flory or fleury, fret, fur, fusil, garland, giron or gyron, gironny or gyronny, griffon, guardant or gardant, gules, hatchment, herald, heraldic or fetial, impale or empale, inescutcheon, issuant, king-of-arms, label, leopard, lion, lozenge, lozengy, Lyon King of Arms, mantling or lambrequin, mascle or voided lozenge, matriculation, moline, naissant, nombril, octofoil, officer of arms, or, ordinary, orle, pale, pall, paly, parted, party, passant, pean, pile, potent, proper, purpure, pursuivant, quarter, quartered, quartering, quarterly, rampant, rebus, regardant, roundel, sable, saltire, sejant or sejeant, scutcheon, semé (of) or semée (of), shield, sinister, spread eagle, statant, sun in splendour, supporter, torse, tressure, urdé or urdée, urinant, vair, vert, voided, volant, wreath, wyvern, yale

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Translations

عِلْم شِعارات النَّبالَه

heraldika

heraldik

Heraldik

heráldica blasón

blason héraldique

heraldika

címertan

skjaldarmerkjafræîi

heraldika

hanedan armacılığı

纹章学

heraldry

[ˈherəldrɪ] N → heráldica f

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heraldry

[ˈhɛrəldri] n

(= study) → héraldique f

(= coat of arms) → blason m

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heraldry

(= science) → Wappenkunde f, → Heraldik f

(= heraldic signs) → Wappen pl

(= ceremonial) → traditioneller höfischer Prunk

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heraldry

[ˈhɛr/əldrɪ] n → araldica

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herald

(ˈherəld) noun

formerly, a person who carries and reads important messages and notices (eg from a king). The king sent out heralds to announce the new law.

verb

to announce or be a sign of. A sharp wind often heralds a storm.

heˈraldic (-ˈrӕl-) adjective

of heraldry.

ˈheraldry noun

the study of coats of arms, crests etc and of the history of the families who have the right to use them.

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Letters came, with armorial seals upon them, though of bearings unknown to English heraldry. In the cottage there were articles of comfort and luxury such as Hester never cared to use, but which only wealth could have purchased and affection have imagined for her.

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So no one vexed him as he trotted through the winding pathways between the many houses and past the obscene kingposts of totemic heraldry, where the forms of men, carved from single tree trunks, were seated in the gaping jaws of carved sharks.

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* introduction of supporters into the science of heraldry.

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Darwin, whom I understood to be a man without prejudices, but it occurred to me that perhaps he would not be interested in it since it did not concern heraldry.

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It seemed to her very odd that he should know as much about breeding bulldogs as any man in England; that he had a collection of wild flowers found near London; and his weekly visit to old Miss Trotter at Ealing, who was an authority upon the science of Heraldry, never failed to excite her laughter.

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It was probably a shield with a red line down the middle of it, called in heraldry a pale.

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The dark mark of fate and doom was on the threshold-- the tall old threshold surmounted by coronets and caned heraldry.

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Except the knowledge of blazons, that enables me to decipher them, I am very ignorant of heraldry -- I, a count of a fresh creation, fabricated in Tuscany by the aid of a commandery of St.

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Here might be seen the Savage Man, well known in heraldry, hairy as a baboon, and girdled with green leaves.

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But he had a magic and minute knowledge of the Westminster omnibuses, and indeed of the whole omnibus system of London, the colors and numbers of which he knew as a herald knows heraldry. He would cry out against a momentary confusion between a light-green Paddington and a dark-green Bayswater vehicle, as his uncle would at the identification of a Greek ikon and a Roman image.

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These coats-of-arms could be read, where a scroll would be meaningless, and the bowman, like most men of his age, was well versed in the common symbols of heraldry.

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He was familiar with the literature and history not only of the ancient world but of all the important modern nations of western Europe, with philosophy, the sciences of painting, architecture, botany, zoology, gardening, entomology (he had a large collection of insects), and even heraldry. He was himself an excellent musician.

Noun	1.	heraldry - the study and classification of armorial bearings and the tracing of genealogies blazon, blazonry, coat of arms, arms - the official symbols of a family, state, etc. crest - (heraldry) in medieval times, an emblem used to decorate a helmet device - an emblematic design (especially in heraldry); "he was recognized by the device on his shield" fess, fesse - (heraldry) an ordinary consisting of a broad horizontal band across a shield fleur-de-lys, fleur-de-lis - (heraldry) charge consisting of a conventionalized representation of an iris ordinary - (heraldry) any of several conventional figures used on shields inquiry, research, enquiry - a search for knowledge; "their pottery deserves more research than it has received" ramp - be rampant; "the lion is rampant in this heraldic depiction" armorial - of or relating to heraldry or heraldic arms; "armorial bearing"
	2.	heraldry - emblem indicating the right of a person to bear arms annulet, roundel - (heraldry) a charge in the shape of a circle; "a hollow roundel" armorial bearing, heraldic bearing, bearing, charge - heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield blazon, blazonry, coat of arms, arms - the official symbols of a family, state, etc. emblem - special design or visual object representing a quality, type, group, etc.