Heralds' College

American  

noun

1. a royal corporation in England, instituted in 1483, concerned chiefly with armorial bearings, genealogies, honors, and precedence.

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heralds' college British  

noun

1. another name for college of arms

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Example Sentences

He still presides over the Heralds' College, and nominally over the Marshalsea Court.

From The Manual of Heraldry; Fifth Edition Being a Concise Description of the Several Terms Used, and Containing a Dictionary of Every Designation in the Science by Anonymous

Clarenceux King of Arms, an officer of the Heralds’ College, derives his style, through Clarence, from Clare.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" by Various

The MS. on vellum, preserved in the Heralds' College, is a copy of the History, transcribed, as the Author conceives, by a very ignorant copyist.

From Henry of Monmouth, Volume 1 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth by Tyler, James Endell

The Heralds' College will refer them to me—not simultaneously, if I may trust Sir Albert Woods's tact—and I shall tell them that it belongs to neither, but to another William Laird altogether.

From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

The heraldic side of its duties are now vested in the earl marshal as head of the Heralds’ College.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various