Coat Of Arms Definition

coats-of-arms
noun
A tabard or surcoat blazoned with bearings.
American Heritage
A group of emblems and figures (heraldic bearings) usually arranged on and around a shield and serving as the special insignia of some person, family, or institution.
Webster's New World
A representation of bearings.
American Heritage

(heraldry) Hereditary designs and symbols depicted on an escutcheon, sometimes accompanied by other elements of a heraldic achievement, such as a helm, crest, crest coronet, torse, mantling and supporters; described by a blazon.

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Noun

Singular:
coat of arms
Plural:
coats-of-arms

Origin of Coat Of Arms

  • From Old French cote a armer, cote d'armes, originally a tunic embroidered with heraldic arms.

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Coat Of Arms Sentence Examples

  • Worn by royalty and included in many coat-of-arms, the fleur de lis symbol is seen most frequently today in architecture.

  • Originally used as a coat-of-arms, it became associated with royalty, appearing not only amongst the French, but on monarchs from Spain and the Netherlands as well.

  • Two or three other technical masterpieces of the engraver's art, the "Coat-of-Arms with the Skull," the "Nativity," with its exquisite background of ruined buildings, the "Little Horse" and the "Great Horse," both of 1505, complete the list of the master's chief productions in this kind before he started in the last-named year for a second visit to Italy.

  • After this event the city was permitted to add the words "very noble and very loyal" to its coat of arms.

  • A coat-of-arms was given to the inhabitants by Ladislaus for their courage during the storming of Milan; and the place is mentioned as a royal town under Ottokar II.

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