cadency
Example Sentences
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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
By a curious divergence the bordure wavy is not a mark of illegitimacy in Scotland, but a mark of perfectly legitimate cadency.
From The Handbook to English Heraldry by Utting, R. B.
In the third generation the mark of cadency is again superimposed upon the two preceding differences, producing, at length, unutterable confusion.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony
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 Utting, R. B.
In modern cadency an unpierced mullet is the difference of the third son.
From The Handbook to English Heraldry by Utting, R. B.
