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heraldry

[her-uhl-dree]

noun, plural -ries.

the science of armorial bearings.

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.

the office or duty of a herald.

a heraldic device, or a collection of such devices.

a coat of arms; armorial bearings.

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heraldic symbolism.

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

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Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English. See herald, -ry

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her·ald·ist, noun

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heraldry (ˈhɛrəldrɪ)

—n , pl -ries
1.	the occupation or study concerned with the classification of armorial bearings, the allocation of rights to bear arms, the tracing of genealogies, etc
2.	the duties and pursuit of a herald
3.	armorial bearings, insignia, devices, etc
4.	heraldic symbols or symbolism
5.	the show and ceremony of heraldry

'heraldist

—n

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"The rugged Pyrrhus, he whose sable arms,
Black as his purpose, did the night resemble
When he lay couched in the ominous horse,
Hath now this dread and black complexion smeared
With heraldry more dismal. Head to foot
Now is he total gules, horridly tricked
With blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, sons,
Baked and impasted with the parching streets,
That lend a tyrannous and a damned light
To their lord's murder. Roasted in wrath and fire,
And thus o'ersized with coagulate gore,
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Old grandsire Priam seeks."

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