Heralds' College


noun
  1. a royal corporation in England, instituted in 1483, concerned chiefly with armorial bearings, genealogies, honors, and precedence.

  • Also called College of Arms.

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How to use Heralds' College in a sentence

  • His footballing tie, with his college arms embroidered upon it, flapped gently in the breeze.

    Once a Week | Alan Alexander Milne
  • I made my way by the police station and the College Arms towards my own house.

    The War of the Worlds | H. G. Wells
  • A curiously short and wide shield, bearing the college arms, is encircled by a band bearing the inscription, 'Sigill.

    Book-Plates | William J. Hardy
  • In the centre of the hall was a huge plate-warmer, elaborately worked in brass with the college arms.

British Dictionary definitions for heralds' college

heralds' college

noun
  1. another name for college of arms

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