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of the colours

of the colours prepositional phrase: having, in alternating sections, the principal metal and principal colour of the associated arms.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (etc) Having, in alternating sections, the principal metal and principal colour of the associated arms.
    • CREST – Upon a torce of the colours, a swan's neck and breast, with wings displayed, proper.1801, William Betham, The Baronetage of England, Or the History of the English Baronets, and Such Baronets of Scotland, as are of English Families: With Genealogical Tables, and Engravings of Their...
    • Crests - 1. on a wreath of the colours, a cock proper, charged with a crescent gules (Corry); 2. on a wreath of the colours, a garland between two laurel branches vert (Lowry)[…]1910, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour, page 1025

Examples of of the colours in a sentence

  • The shield is ensigned by a helmet to dexter with mantlings or and gules, and surmounted by the crest; out of a torse of the colours a lion rampant issuant or.1915, Rowland Winn St. Oswald (2d Baron of), Maurice Walter Brockwell, Catalogue of the Pictures and Other Works of Art in the Collection...
  • Unless other tinctures are specified, the torse, like the mantling, is of the colours, i.e. of the principal metal and the principal colour.1983, Charles Boutell, Boutell's Heraldry, Frederick Warne Publishers, page 155:

Questions about of the colours

What does of the colours mean?
Of the colours means having, in alternating sections, the principal metal and principal colour of the associated arms.
How do you use of the colours in a sentence?
The shield is ensigned by a helmet to dexter with mantlings or and gules, and surmounted by the crest; out of a torse of the colours a lion rampant issuant or.
What part of speech is of the colours?
Of the colours is a prepositional phrase.

Words near of the colours in the dictionary

  1. of that ilk
  2. of the best water
  3. of the century
  4. of the clock
  5. of the colors
  6. of the colours
  7. of the deepest dye
  8. of the essence
  9. of the finest water
  10. of the first water
  11. of the like

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