Associations to the word «Heraldry»

Wiktionary

HERALDRY, noun. (uncountable) The profession or art of devising, granting and blazoning coats of arms, tracing genealogies and ruling on questions of protocol or rank.
HERALDRY, noun. (countable) An armorial ensign along with its history and description.
HERALDRY, noun. (uncountable) Pageantry.

Dictionary definition

HERALDRY, noun. The study and classification of armorial bearings and the tracing of genealogies.
HERALDRY, noun. Emblem indicating the right of a person to bear arms.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope