Heralds' Office

American  

noun

1. the official heraldic authority of Scotland.

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Example Sentences

Both Tanner and Oldys describe this book as being in the Heralds' Office at London, but it is not now to be found there; and is certainly not a part of the Arundel MS.

From The Boke of Noblesse by Unknown

He has testimony of this more authentic than the Heralds' Office, or any human testimony.

From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by Saintsbury, George

But he could not find No. 447, and wrote to the Heralds' Office to know if it was a place from which a good view could be got.

From The Life of John Ruskin by Collingwood, W. G. (William Gershom)

In the end, goaded and worried by Miss Daisy into a condition of bewildered exasperation, the Heralds’ Office produced a large pale-blue flag.

From The Island Mystery by Birmingham, George A.

Yet our family-name is Moulton Barrett, and my brothers reproach me sometimes for sacrificing the governorship of an old town in Norfolk with a little honourable verdigris from the Heralds' Office.

From The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 by Browning, Robert