king-of-arms
noun
a title of certain of the principal heralds of England and certain other kingdoms empowered by their sovereigns to grant armorial bearings.
kings-of-arms
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pluralof king-of-arms.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Trumpets, kings-of-arms, heralds, and pursuivants clad in white, and wearing chaplets of leaves, ride foremost.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various
Next followed the pursuivants, heralds, and provincial kings-of-arms, making like reverences, and ranging themselves with the alms-knights.
From Windsor Castle by William Harrison Ainsworth
I asked kings-of-arms and heralds why the king had not been made a knight during his wars with the Moors.
From The White Knight: Tirant Lo Blanc by Robert S. Rudder
Plain collars of Esses are now worn in the United Kingdom by kings-of-arms, heralds and serjeants-at-arms.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various
Early in the morning the kings-of-arms got the two knights and took them to the middle of a forest where no one would be able to see them.
From The White Knight: Tirant Lo Blanc by Robert S. Rudder
