armorial

[US]/ɑː'mɔːrɪəl/
[UK]/ɑr'mɔrɪəl/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. pertaining to heraldry; related to family crests
n. a book of heraldic bearings
Word Forms
Pluralarmorials

Phrases & Collocations

armorial bearings

Example Sentences

a set of armorial china

Real-world Examples

He wore a black working uniform with red armorial hawk crest at the breast.

Source: "Dune" audiobook

Letters came, with armorial seals upon them, though of bearings unknown to English heraldry.

Source: Red characters

Her fine forehead sloped gently up to where her hair, bordering it like an armorial shield, burst into lovelocks and waves and curlicues of ash blonde and gold.

Source: The Night's Gentle Embrace (Part 1)

We may handle even extreme opinions with impunity while our furniture, our dinner-giving, and preference for armorial bearings in our own case, link us indissolubly with the established order.

Source: Middlemarch (Part Three)

He flung his overcoat half out of the window to cover the armorial bearings upon the panel, but I had seen them in the glare of our fanlight none the less.

Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: New Cases (Volume 1)

She now skipped irreverently from one grave to another; until, coming to the broad flat, armorial tombstone of a departed worthy, —perhaps of Isaac Johnson himself, —she began to dance upon it.

Source: Red characters

We possess no pedigree or armorial bearings; and we have to discover and trace the many diverging lines of descent in our natural genealogies, by characters of any kind which have long been inherited.

Source: On the Origin of Species

All around, there ere monuments carved with armorial bearings; and on this simple slab of slate—as the curious investigator may still discern, and perplex himself with the purport—there appeared the semblance of an engraved escutcheon.

Source: Red characters

Young Draper chuckled at the enormity of the joke. " First rate! We'll have incendiary meetings" ! He pulled an elaborately armorial watch from his enfolding furs. " I'm so sorry, but I must say good-bye — this is my street, " he explained.

Source: People and Ghosts (Part 2)

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