cognizances

Ladies delighted to appear in the cognizances of their lords, or in their own paternal bearings.

From The Manual of Heraldry; Fifth Edition Being a Concise Description of the Several Terms Used, and Containing a Dictionary of Every Designation in the Science by Anonymous

And who will not be buxom to them, and give them money for these their devilish cognizances, they are mocked and flouted at not a little.

From A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide by Arthur C. Behrend

It is the richest specimen, on a large scale, of this style of architecture, and is completely covered, both internally and externally, with panel-work, niches, statuary, heraldic devices, cognizances, and other decorative embellishment.

From The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed. by Matthew Holbeche Bloxam

Guilds had their ceremonial dresses, and their “liveries,” and their cognizances, and considered it an honour to wear them.

From Needlework As Art by Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess Alford

The other divisions had each its distinguishing banner, every cacique bearing these cognizances like our Spanish nobles, a circumstance we could not credit when so informed by our prisoners.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 04 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr