Definition & Betydelse | Engelska ordet HERALDRY

Definition av HERALDRY

1. heraldik

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• Abatement (heraldry), a modification of the shield or coat of arms imposed by authority for misconduct.
• Canton (heraldry), a square or other charge (symbol) occupying the upper left corner of a coat of arms.
• Pantheon (mythical creature), a mythical or imaginary creature used in heraldry, particularly in Britain.
• The word is usually used in reference to a kind of fret in architecture, or to a badge or insignia used in military or police uniforms to indicate rank or length of service, or in heraldry and the designs of flags (see flag terminology).
• His Majesty's High Court of Chivalry is a civil law (as opposed to common law) court in English and Welsh law with jurisdiction over matters of heraldry.
• An alternative name for the Musimon, used in European heraldry to symbolize one in authority who leads with strength.
• Its earlier common name, the luci (now lucy) or luce when fully grown, was used to form its taxonomic name (Esox lucius) and is used in heraldry.
• A specific type of crown (or coronet for lower ranks of peerage) is employed in heraldry under strict rules.
• The fleur-de-lis became "at one and the same time, religious, political, dynastic, artistic, emblematic, and symbolic", especially in French heraldry.
• In French heraldry, the colour is usually excluded from the common colours as well as considered "ambiguous" (could be either colour or metal), and Finnish heraldry restricts its use to certain additaments.
• Flags often inherit traits seen in traditional European heraldry designs, and as a result, patterns often share names.
• The flag traces back to the coat of arms of the medieval Babenberg dynasty, a silver band on a red field (in heraldry: Gules a fess Argent).
• In heraldry, an ensign is an ornament or sign, such as the crown, coronet, or mitre, borne above the charge or arms.
• The seax appears in the heraldry of the English counties of Essex and Middlesex, each of which bears three seaxes in their ceremonial emblem, or rather the Tudor heralds' idea of what a seax looked like, portrayed in each case like a falchion or scimitar.
• In terms of heraldry, the flag is quartered, I and IV argent, three hills vert, a bird sable (specifically a raven), II and III gules three fleur-de-lis argent.
• In line with its expanded role and self-image, the administration established the King's Inns for barristers in 1541, and the Ulster King of Arms to regulate heraldry in 1552.
• The same pattern has other names, including "in saltire" or "in cross" in heraldry (depending on the orientation of the outer square), the five-point stencil in numerical analysis, and the five dots tattoo.
• The black knight is a literary stock character who masks his identity and that of his liege by not displaying heraldry.
• As such, in French (and most of continental) heraldry, tenné is the light-brownish colour that leather is supposed to have once tanned.
• It also displayed arms of Ireland which once hung in the Houses of Parliament in College Green, a police notice on information on the 1907 theft of the Irish crown jewels, the funeral hatchment of Daniel O'Connell used on his hearse, the Irish Lord Chancellor's purse, and other items showing the use of heraldry.

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