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How to use heraldic in a sentence

13 example sentences · adjective

Heraldic means of, or relating to heraldry or heralds. Example: “Apart from his unfinished essays on his created world, Tolkien drew Middle-earthian plants, textiles, and heraldic designs.”

Examples of heraldic by meaning

adjectiveOf, or relating to heraldry or heralds.

  • a heraldic device

More sentences with heraldic

  • Apart from his unfinished essays on his created world, Tolkien drew Middle-earthian plants, textiles, and heraldic designs.2007, Kristin Thompson, The Frodo Franchise: The Lord of the Rings and Modern Hollywood, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 85. From the entry Middle-earthian
  • David suspects that Estella’s eighteenth-century ancestors provided the model for the heraldic lion’s head used for hallmarks.1988, Matthew Sturgis, The English Cat at Home, Topsfield, Mass.: Salem House Publishers, published 1989, →ISBN, page 114. From the entry reginal
  • Sometimes there is confusion over the heraldic leopard, the question being—When is a leopard not a leopard?1968, Charles MacKinnon of Dunakin, The Observer's Book of Heraldry, pages 68–69. From the entry leopard
  • Heraldic writers give the fillet as a diminutive of the chief.1903, Day Otis Kellogg, Thomas Spencer Baynes, The Encyclopædia Britannica: A-ZYM, page 694. From the entry per chief
  • Agnes Roman Catholic Church with its heraldic spire floating on the night sky, and its ancient bumpy churchyard.2001, Middle Age: A Romance, Joyce Carol Oates (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, 17). From the entry caulking
  • Technique : The Überlingen heraldic window is a technical masterpiece.2001, Virginia Chieffo Raguin, Helen Jackson Zakin, Elizabeth Carson Pastan, Stained Glass Before 1700 in the Collections of the Midwest…. From the entry kleestengel
  • The heraldic tiger is a mythical beast, quite unlike a real tiger which is described in heraldry as a Bengal tiger.1968, Charles MacKinnon of Dunakin, The Observer's Book of Heraldry, page 69. From the entry tiger
  • The heraldic name for whirlpools is gorges, and a mediaeval family called Gorges bore a whirlpool as its arms.1966, Charles Mackinnon of Dunakin, chapter 5, in The Observer's Book of Heraldry, London: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., page 77. From the entry gorge
  • The mock heraldic strains of the Game of Thrones theme, borrowed straight from Monty Python’s Holy Grail, accompany a nifty dragon’s eye view of a beautifully wrought clockwork Thronesiverse.2017 November 25, Patrick Freyne, “The TV theme songs that make you drool with pleasure”, in The Irish Times. From the entry Thronesiverse
  • It consists of an heraldic diaper within a "tapestry" border below, where the Thorpe arms of a fess between six and fleur-de-lys alternate with another coat on lozenges.1949, E[dward] Clive Rouse, Longthorpe Tower, Peterborough, Northamptonshire, H.M. Stationery Office, page 4. From the entry diaper
  • While the reverse retains the same heraldic design of the first Allegories issue, the obverse shows Germania and Columbia grasping each other’s hand and, respectively, the German and American flags.2019 October, Louis Golino, “Modern World Coins”, in The Numismatist, American Numismatic Association, page 72. From the entry Germania
  • Urcheons, bagwyns, opinici and musimons, represented statant, sejant or segreant, and in every variety of metal, colour and fur, completed an exhibition which was both boastfully heraldic and pompously powerful.1928, Punch, page 612, column 2. From the entry opinicus

Meaning of heraldic

  1. adjective Of, or relating to heraldry or heralds.

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Questions about heraldic in a sentence

How do you use heraldic in a sentence?
Heraldic is used as an adjective. For example: “Apart from his unfinished essays on his created world, Tolkien drew Middle-earthian plants, textiles, and heraldic designs.”
What is a short sentence with heraldic?
“a heraldic device”
What does heraldic mean?
Heraldic means of, or relating to heraldry or heralds.

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