1) Bearer of heraldic devices 2) Decoration on armor 3) Display on an escutcheon 4) Escutcheon marking 5) Family crest 6) Family seal 7) Family symbol 8) French word used in English 9) Heraldic bearings 10) Heraldic design 11) Heraldic insignia 12) Heraldry emblem 13) Sign of nobility 14) Symbolic emblem
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A method of displaying status. Special permission was needed to gain these. It showed who you were and your ancestors to others by the use of symbols, such as a lozenge and animals. Conventions needed to be followed and there is a special language for that which could appear on your shield, clothes, castle or tom for both the things visible and th...
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the heraldic bearings of a family of rank, a corporation or an institution.
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Coat of arms is a translation of the French cotte d'armes, which was a garment of light material worn over the armour in the 15th and 16th centuries. This was often charged with the heraldic bearings of the wearer, and the term came to mean a person's heraldic bearings.
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n] - (heraldry) the official symbols of a family, state, etc.
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arms 1 blazon noun the official symbols of a family, state, etc.
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