heraldry
noun
the science of armorial bearings.
heraldries
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pluralof heraldry.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The feelings excited by a landscape such as this bore a subtle resemblance to those produced in myself by the heraldries which thronged the church.
From Memoirs of Life and Literature by W. H. (William Hurrell) Mallock
Melancholy and morose, standing in their loneliness, we trim them into keeping with our wishes and so adopt them into our good graces, as ornaments of our estates, heraldries of our gentility.
From Tablets by Amos Bronson Alcott
At the heart of that huge whirlwind of his, with its dusty heraldries, and phantasmal nomenclatures now become mendacious, there lay, at first, always an earnest human fact.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia β Volume 02 by Thomas Carlyle
Above all, and out of his own private purse, he supported the heraldries of his dominions—the peerage, senatorial or prætorian, and the great gentry or chivalry of the Equites.
From The Caesars by Thomas De Quincey
The place had formerly been a German restaurant, with Teuton scrolls, "Ich Dien," and heraldries on its walls.
From There's Pippins and Cheese to Come by Charles S. (Charles Stephen) Brooks
