He was himself a clever draughtsman and occasionally sketched "des dessins aux enseignes enchevetrees," reminiscences of the real signs he used to admire on his wanderings.
Edouard Fournier, in his most interesting Histoire des Enseignes de Paris, makes some valuable remarks on the connection between Trade Signs and Heraldry.
Numbers of enseignes are mentioned in the inventories, and male portraits very commonly exhibit this form of decoration.
Pendants of the same form as those hung from neck-chains also appear occasionally as enseignesupon the hat.
These were cast or stamped, and not, like the more magnificent enseignes of gold, executed by the repoussé process.
Representations of enseignes in pictures are too frequent to permit of any attempt to enumerate them.
The fashion for enseignes lasted until about the second quarter of the seventeenth century.
XXXIV, 3); while the enseignes with figured compositions appear to have fallen into disuse.
Further information about the cheaper class of enseignes is met with in Bernard Palissy's Art de la terre, according to which the enamellers of Limoges, owing to competition, had to supply figured hat-badges at trois sols la douzaine.
There is the possibility that some were worn by the servants of nobility as enseignes upon the hat, or perhaps on the left arm or breast.
He appears to have delighted in painting with peculiar care the beautiful enseignes worn by his sitters--attractive jewels enamelled in ronde bosse, and contemporary with the Windsor "George" and its fellows.
The smaller jewels, which might also have been worn as enseignes or badges on the hat, or as brooches, are of open goldwork with leaf or ribbon ornament set with stones and pearls.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "enseignes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
