armorial
Americanadjective
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of or relating to heraldry or heraldic bearings.
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bearing a coat or coats of arms.
a set of armorial china.
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adjective
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From BBC ● May 29, 2011
In the Chamber, princes, nawabs, rajas and maharajas sat under their painted armorial shields, fingering their silky beards, their brocaded turbans, their jeweled necklaces, delighted that the Viceroy had revived this ceremony.
From Time Magazine Archive
Despite the fact that services of armorial Lowestoft of that size are as rare as fragments of the True Cross, Dealer Cloran believed.
From Time Magazine Archive
For a time I went into a works where they made dies for armorial bearings.
From The Secrets of a Savoyard by Henry A. Lytton
Tho’ faded in splender, its grateness wos then, Knawn to its foemen as Red Lion’s den; ’Neath its armorial sheeld, an’ hoary oud wall, I now see Rebekka o’ Riddlesden Hall.
From Random Rhymes and Rambles by William Aldis Wright
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