coat of arms
insignia of a family or person composed of figures and emblems; coat or vest decorated with heraldic arms (formerly worn by medieval knights)
Coat of arms
See
heraldry for a fuller account of the history, design, and regulation of coats of arms. A coat of arms or armorial bearings (often just arms for short), in
European tradition, is a design belonging to a particular person (or group of people) and used by them in a wide variety of ways. Unlike
seals and
emblems, coats of arms have a formal description that is expressed as a
blazon.
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coat of arms
Noun
1. the official symbols of a family, state, etc.
(synonym) arms, blazon, blazonry
(hypernym) heraldry
(hyponym) quartering
(part-meronym) crest
(classification) heraldry
Coat-of-Arms
To dream of seeing your coat-of-arms, is a dream of ill luck. You will never possess a title.
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or "What's in a dream": a scientific and practical exposition; By Gustavus Hindman, 1910. For the open domain e-text see:
Guttenberg Project
coat of arms
Synonyms and related words:
achievement, alerion, animal charge, annulet, argent, armorial bearings, armory, arms, azure, bandeau, bar, bar sinister, baton, bearings, bend, bend sinister, billet, blazon, blazonry, bordure, broad arrow, cadency mark, canton, chaplet, charge, chevron, chief, cockatrice, coronet, crescent, crest, cross, cross moline, crown, device, difference, differencing, eagle, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, falcon, fess, fess point, field, file, flanch, fleur-de-lis, fret, fur, fusil, garland, griffin, gules, gyron, hatchment, helmet, heraldic device, honor point, impalement, impaling, inescutcheon, label, lion, lozenge, mantling, marshaling, martlet, mascle, metal, motto, mullet, nombril point, octofoil, or, ordinary, orle, pale, paly, pean, pheon, purpure, quarter, quartering, rose, sable, saltire, scutcheon, shield, spread eagle, subordinary, tenne, tincture, torse, tressure, unicorn, vair, vert, wreath, yale,
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.