armorial bearing

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armorial bearing

noun armorial bearings

  1. Heraldry that consists of a design or image depicted on a shield. […]when the French seized Malta they were by no means so delicate. They effaced armorial bearings with their usual hot-headed eagerness; and a few years after they had torn down the coats of arms of the gentry, the heroes of Malta and Egypt were busy devising heraldry for themselves, and were wild t

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@misc{armorial_bearing_2026,
  title = {armorial bearing},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/armorial%20bearing},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}