heraldry

The B-52s are heading to the UK in June, as part of their ever-extending farewell tour, and Pierson is using the trip as an excuse to indulge her fascination with British heraldry.

From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2026

As the remaining spellers dwindled, Shradha was given “orle,” a heraldry term that means several small charges arranged to form a border within the edge of a field.

From Seattle Times ● May 28, 2024

Interestingly, dragons of yore had to be dominated or defeated; their occasional use in heraldry and art was meant to impress and inspire awe.

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2022

Still, “we wanted the jacket to be more futuristic looking,” said Catherine Lovelady, the project manager for uniforms and heraldry cultural items for the Space Force, who worked with Ms. Roan on the design.

From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2021

Come-into-my-castle was a game for highborn children, one meant to teach them courtesy, heraldry, and a thing or two about their lord father’s friends and foes.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

It has flaunted, emblazoned with the heraldries of France and England, in coronation ceremonies at Rheims and Westminster.

From A Problem in Modern Ethics being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists by John Addington Symonds

Avoid   The places where thou seest much drapery,   Colours, and gold, and plumes, and heraldries,   And such new-fanglements.

From Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 2 by Torquato Tasso

The passage continues with "there" and "thither" repeated eight times; it bristles with contrasts, graces and horrors, antithesis, climax, and sonorous heraldries.

From Studies in Early Victorian Literature by Frederic Harrison

Any quantity of heraldries of knaves and fainéants you may find in what they call their 'history': but this is probably the first time you ever read the name of Robert of Luzarches.

From Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens by John Ruskin

Above all, and out of his own private purse, he supported the heraldries of his dominions—the peerage, senatorial or prætorian, and the great gentry or chivalry of the Equites.

From The Caesars by Thomas De Quincey