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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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
When the dinner was half finished, Tirant summoned the kings-of-arms and heralds, and gave them a thousand ducats.
From The White Knight: Tirant Lo Blanc by Robert S. Rudder
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
The case has been much debated by pursuivants and kings-of-arms.
From The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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
