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double achievement

noun

, Heraldry.
  1. a representation of the arms of a husband beside those of his wife such that a difference of rank between them is shown.


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He gained great glory from this double achievement, as he appeared to have won one battle by courage and the other by generalship.

Their double achievement was to make ugliness culpable, and to prove that beauty need not be expensive.

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