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her·ald·ry

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–noun, plural -ries.

1.	the science of armorial bearings.

2.	the art of blazoning armorial bearings, of settling the rights of persons to bear arms or to use certain bearings, of tracing and recording genealogies, of recording honors, and of deciding questions of precedence.

3.	the office or duty of a herald.

4.	a heraldic device, or a collection of such devices.

5.	a coat of arms; armorial bearings.

6.	heraldic symbolism.

7.	heraldic pomp or ceremony: The coronation was marked by all the magnificence of heraldry.

[Origin: 1350–1400; ME. See herald, -ry

]

—Related forms

her·ald·ist, noun

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her·ald·ry Audio Help (hěr'əl-drē) Pronunciation Key
n. pl. her·ald·ries

1. The profession, study, or art of devising, granting, and blazoning arms, tracing genealogies, and determining and ruling on questions of rank or protocol, as exercised by an officer of arms.
2. A branch of knowledge dealing with the history and description in proper terms of armorial bearings and their accessories.
Armorial ensigns or similar insignia.
Pomp and ceremony, especially attended with armorial trappings; pageantry.

her'ald·ist n.

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heraldry
noun
1.	the study and classification of armorial bearings and the tracing of genealogies
2.	emblem indicating the right of a person to bear arms

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ˈheraldry noun

the study of coats of arms, crests etc and of the history of the families who have the right to use them

Arabic:	عِلْم شِعارات النَّبالَه
Chinese (Simplified):	纹章学
Chinese (Traditional):	紋章學
Czech:	heraldika
Danish:	heraldik
Dutch:	heraldiek
Estonian:	heraldika
Finnish:	heraldiikka
French:	art héraldique
German:	die Heraldik
Greek:	οικοσημολογία
Hungarian:	címertan
Icelandic:	skjaldarmerkjafræði
Indonesian:	ilmu lambang
Italian:	araldica

Japanese:	紋章学
Korean:	문장학(紋章學)
Latvian:	heraldika
Lithuanian:	heraldika
Norwegian:	heraldikk
Polish:	heraldyka
Portuguese (Brazil):	heráldica
Portuguese (Portugal):	heráldica
Romanian:	heraldică
Russian:	геральдика
Slovak:	heraldika
Slovenian:	grboslovje
Spanish:	heráldica
Swedish:	heraldik
Turkish:	hanedan armacılığı

See also: heraldic, herald

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Heraldry

Her"ald*ry\, 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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