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cadency

[keyd-n-see] / ˈkeɪd n si /


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The latest shield under it was Lionel’s—argent, a bend gules distinguished with some sort of label of cadency.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Here are only numbers ratified, but for the elegancy, facility, and golden cadency of poesy, caret.

From The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Delia Bacon

In modern English cadency, the difference of the second son, or house.

From The Handbook to English Heraldry by R. B. Utting

In modern cadency it is the difference of the eighth son.

From The Handbook to English Heraldry by R. B. Utting

In modern cadency a Double Quatrefoil is the difference of the ninth son.

From The Handbook to English Heraldry by R. B. Utting

The characteristic quality is often found in an improvised arrangement of words which makes the dominant feeling that of mingling words and cadencies successfully.

From Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern Negroes by Howard W. Odum




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