The great banner borne at the funeral of a nobleman contains all the quarterings of his arms: it varies in size according to the rank of the deceased.
Thus, if there are twelve quarterings in the banner, the same number of banner rolls will be required to be borne in the funeral procession.
An escutcheon containing a number of quarterings is called a genealogical achievement.
This fine brick mansion formerly belonged to the Levesons, and the quarteringsof Sir John Leveson and his two wives are to be seen above the central porch.
On the continent the common use of the scocheon is to bear the paternal arms of a sovereign or noble, surmounting the quarterings of his kingdoms, principalities, fiefs or seigniories.
How shall we prove these fourteenquarterings that we have been quoting incessantly for the past three weeks?
They actually dignify station, instead of disgracing it, so that a "brogue" seems to seal the very patent of your nobility, and the mutilations of your parts of speech stand for quarterings on your escutcheon.
Above their recumbent effigies is a great display of armorial bearings, with sixty-four quarterings hung upon a vine, showing the intermarriages of the principal families of England.
The shield is probably that of Knightley, whose quarterings are very numerous.
We do not know where to refer our querist to an emblazoned shield, but there are other families whosequarterings would be as numerous, viz.
It is moreover well to remember that in the majority of cases there is not the least need in actual work to produce a great many quarterings in a shield.
These dignities are duly displayed in the quarterings of his arms on his seal, as follows: 1.
This displays four shields: one has the arms of Bourchier quartering Lovain and impaling the quarterly arms of Berners; and another, the six quarterings of Sir Humphrey's wife, Elizabeth Tylney.
XVII A and XXII B), or the quarterings were all different, as in the case of Humphrey Stafford duke of Buckingham.
None but the women whose quarterings begin with Noah know, as Eleonore did, how to be majestic in spite of a buxom tendency.
I am the last of our family, which ends in me; but I have the necessary quarteringsto make my entry into any court or chapter-house in Europe.
Should you be a gentleman of quarterings and coat-armor," lisped Sir Nigel, "I shall be very blithe to go further into the matter with you.
Then read this," quoth Sir Nigel, pointing upwards to one of the many quarterings which adorned the wall over the fireplace.
Two quarterings of my great-grandfathers were hung and drawn apart from their quarterings.
I do not mean that a man is not a gentleman because he is stupid, but much more I do not mean that quarterings make him one.
Do you fancy none can use a sword unless he has a baker's dozen of quarterings in his arms, or that Oxford scholars know only how to handle a pen?
This represents the two kingdoms of Castile and Leon, but it was undoubtedly the example which afterwards led to regular quarterings of arms by families.
In this respect Shakespeare entirely agrees with the Emblem writers; neither he nor they give us the quarterings complete, but they single out for honourable mention some prominent mark or sign.
The ceiling of the drawing-room was occupied by the different quarterings of the coat of arms of the Brougham family, in carved work of gold and colors, one to each panel, very elaborately finished.
When a Shield to be quartered has a very numerous array of Quarterings, Grand Quartering is seldom adopted; but, in its stead, the new quarterings are marshalled in their proper succession, with the original quarterings of the Shield.
The adoption of additional quarterings for the purpose of display, and the introduction of more complicated compositions in the time of HENRY VIII.
We believe, however, that it is more correctly a purple flag in the centre of which the quarterings are displayed on an oval shield surmounted by a crown and encircled by the collar of the order of the Golden Fleece.
Armoiries de Patronage," in reality quarterings added to an armoirie already existing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quarterings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
