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Heraldic :: Heraldic (a.) Of or pertaining to heralds or heraldry; as, heraldic blazoning; heraldic language..

Legend :: Legend (n.) An inscription, motto, or title, esp. one surrounding the field in a medal or coin, or placed upon an heraldic shield or beneath an engraving or illustration..

Heralding :: Heralding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Heral.

Blazon :: Blazon (n.) The art or act of describing or depicting heraldic bearings in the proper language or manner.

Herald :: Herald (n.) An officer whose business was to denounce or proclaim war, to challenge to battle, to proclaim peace, and to bear messages from the commander of an army. He was invested with a sacred and inviolable character..

Vair :: Vair (n.) The skin of the squirrel, much used in the fourteenth century as fur for garments, and frequently mentioned by writers of that period in describing the costly dresses of kings, nobles, and prelates. It is represented in heraldry by a series of small shields placed close together, and alternately white and blue..

Armorist :: Armorist (n.) One skilled in coat armor or heraldry.

Armory :: Armory (n.) That branch of heraldry which treats of coat armor.

Herald :: Herald (n.) In the Middle Ages, the officer charged with the above duties, and also with the care of genealogies, of the rights and privileges of noble families, and especially of armorial bearings. In modern times, some vestiges of this office remain, especially in England. See Heralds' College (below), and King-at-Arms..

Escroll :: Escroll (n.) In modern heraldry, a similar ribbon on which the motto is inscribed..

Coherald :: Coherald (n.) A joint herald.

Blazoner :: Blazoner (n.) One who gives publicity, proclaims, or blazons; esp., one who blazons coats of arms; a herald..

Heraud :: Heraud (n.) A herald.

Emblazoning :: Emblazoning (n.) The act or art of heraldic decoration; delineation of armorial bearings.

Blazon :: Blazon (n.) An heraldic shield; a coat of arms, or a bearing on a coat of arms; armorial bearings..

Fleur-de-lis :: Fleur-de-lis (n.) A conventional flower suggested by the iris, and having a form which fits it for the terminal decoration of a scepter, the ornaments of a crown, etc. It is also a heraldic bearing, and is identified with the royal arms and adornments of France..

Nebuly :: Nebuly (a.) Composed of successive short curves supposed to resemble a cloud; -- said of a heraldic line by which an ordinary or subordinary may be bounded.

Emblazon :: Emblazon (v. t.) To depict or represent; -- said of heraldic bearings. See Blazon.

Griffon :: Griffon (n.) A representation of this creature as an heraldic charge.

Heraldry :: Heraldry (n.) The art or office of a herald; the art, practice, or science of recording genealogies, and blazoning arms or ensigns armorial; also, of marshaling cavalcades, processions, and public ceremonies..

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