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armorial bearings

armorial bearings is the plural of armorial bearing.

Meaning of armorial bearing

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

Questions about armorial bearings

What is armorial bearings the plural of?
Armorial bearings is the plural of armorial bearing.

Words near armorial bearings in the dictionary

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

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