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faleristics

faleristics is the alternative form of phaleristics.

Meaning of phaleristics

Noun

phaleristics (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The study of orders, fraternity, and award items.
    • For a longer and less well-focused systematising definition of the themes of phaleristics, see Attila Pandula, 'Orden und Auszeichnungen — Besondere Spiegelbilder der Geschichte', in Das Erste und Zweite Gunzenhäuser Phaleristik-Symposium (Offenach am Main, 1997), 16-21).2008, Antti Matikkala, The Orders of Knighthood and the Formation of the British Honours System

Questions about faleristics

What is faleristics the alternative form of?
Faleristics is the alternative form of phaleristics.

Words near faleristics in the dictionary

  1. faldstools
  2. falecalcitriol
  3. Faler
  4. Falerian
  5. Falerians
  6. faleristics
  7. Falerne
  8. Falernian
  9. falernum
  10. Falero
  11. Faleros

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