释义 |
heraldryher‧ald‧ry /ˈherəldri/ noun [uncountable] - A representative from the College of Arms had kindly agreed to come and talk about heraldry.
- Although the majority of depositum plates were rectangular, a few followed the dictates of heraldry.
- He looked, with his long, Norman face, like an illustration in a book on heraldry.
- In heraldry the shield is described from the aspect of its bearer, not its viewer.
- It was faultless, like an illustration from a book on heraldry, or an enormous butterfly pinned by a heartless collector.
- She never forgot his name as she connected it with heraldry.
- The heraldry of day-to-day: a cat couchant on bricks; a baby in a push-chair blowing a trumpet very loudly.
- They were probably introduced as a spin-off from the revived interest in heraldry in the early eighteenth century.
the study of coats of arms—heraldic /heˈrældɪk/ adjective |