cadency
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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
A plain ring; sometimes blazoned as a “false roundle”: in modern English cadency, the difference of the fifth son or brother: No. 154.
From The Handbook to English Heraldry by R. B. Utting
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 an unpierced mullet is the difference of the third son.
From The Handbook to English Heraldry by R. B. Utting
It is not a little remarkable that the arms of neither shield nor surcoat bear any label or mark of cadency, but are simply royal arms.
From Curious Church Customs and Cognate Subjects by William Andrews
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
