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armorial bearing

armorial bearing noun: heraldry that consists of a design or image depicted on a shield.

Noun

armorial bearing (plural 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...1846, Mr. M. A. Titmarsh [pseudonym; W. M. Thackeray], chapter VIII, in Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo […] , London: Chapman and Hall, page 140

Forms of armorial bearing

pluralarmorial bearings

Questions about armorial bearing

What does armorial bearing mean?
Armorial bearing means heraldry that consists of a design or image depicted on a shield.
What part of speech is armorial bearing?
Armorial bearing is a noun.
What is the plural of armorial bearing?
The plural of armorial bearing is armorial bearings.

Words near armorial bearing in the dictionary

  1. armorer
  2. armorers
  3. armorhead
  4. armorheads
  5. armorial
  6. armorial bearing
  7. armorial bearings
  8. armoriall
  9. armorially
  10. armorials
  11. Armoric

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