The squire examined the arms, and, though not versed in the mysteries of heraldry, he thought he remembered enough of most of the arms he had seen to say that this armorial bearing was a strange one to him.
Richard Hooper (who first drew my attention to this armorial bearing), that the family was probably foreign to Britain.
At this early period they were followers of the imperial party and they received from Frederic, as his feudatories, the armorial bearing of three azure bars on a silver field.
The Torriglia branch used sometimes to place a dragon upon their helmets; but the cat, as more ancient, was the true armorial bearing of the family.
The Palazzo Rosso has a magnificent sala that has a roof decorated with the armorial bearings of the Brignole family and those they intermarried with.
Its handsome courtyard, attributed to Palladio, is adorned with armorialbearings of distinguished alumni.
And this we have done, in order not to leave the State and city in doubt as to the last duke's successor, without taking either title or armorial bearings, lest we should incur the same blame as that illustrious lord our father.
On the face of the third storey of the tower are the armorial bearings of the Earl of Salisbury.
Between the wings runs a basement arcade, of eight arches on Doric pilasters, four on each side of the gateway below the armorial bearings.
Note the clunch walls and mullioned windows, in one of which, designed in stained glass, are the armorialbearings of three former owners.
On either side are the stalls or seats for the knights, with the armorial banner of each hanging over his place.
The sarcophagi are in black marble with recumbent life-size statues of gilded copper; on the sides are the enamelled armorial bearings of the numerous domains belonging to the House of Burgundy.
They are often panelled or pierced with tracery, which frequently contains shields with armorial bearings and heraldic devices.
His Armorial Ensigns, according to the same authority, were Quarterly, 1st and 4th.
Could you not go round among the cities of the empire as missionary preachers and referendaries, or post yourselves as chevaliers d'honneur and armorial bearers on either side of a throne?
The frequency of eagles in heraldry made them very common on the signboard, although it is now impossible to say whose armorial bearings each particular eagle was intended to represent.
It is the sign of the principal inn at Oswestry in Shropshire, and of very many public-houses in North Wales, and has been adopted from the armorial bearings of Sir Watkin Williams Wynne, Bart.
With keen eyes the English party had watched the armorial blazonry of their antagonists, for those fluttering pennons and brilliant surcoats carried a language which all men could read.
Italian armorial bearings, and surmounted by a cardinal's hat; Dantes easily recognized them, Faria had so often drawn them for him.
In the Middle Ages, the officer charged with the above duties, and also with the care of genealogies, of the rights and privileges of noble families, and especially of armorial bearings.
At the head of the table was the armorial chair of Raimond V.
The red ensign shown is that of the Dominion of Canada, the device in the fly being the armorial bearings of the Dominion.
To the armorial shields the date was often added, together with the initials of the owner.
As the function of the banner was to display the armorial bearings of the dignitary who had the right to carry it, it is evident that the square form was the most convenient and akin to the shield of primal heraldry.
Divided into small alternating squares of two tinctures; -- said of the field or of an armorial bearing.
Showing the full face, but nothing of the neck; -- said of the head of a beast in armorial bearing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "armorial" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
