coat of arms

coat of arms

n. pl. coats of arms Heraldry

1. A tabard or surcoat blazoned with bearings.

2.

a. An arrangement of bearings, usually depicted on and around a shield, that indicates ancestry and distinctions.

b. A representation of bearings.

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coat of arms

n

1. (History / Heraldry) the heraldic bearings of a person, family, or corporation

2. (History / Heraldry) a surcoat decorated with family or personal bearings

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

coat of arms - the official symbols of a family, state, etc. blazon, blazonry, arms crest - (heraldry) in medieval times, an emblem used to decorate a helmet heraldry - emblem indicating the right of a person to bear arms quartering - a coat of arms that occupies one quarter of an escutcheon; combining four coats of arms on one shield usually represented intermarriages heraldry - the study and classification of armorial bearings and the tracing of genealogies

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coat of arms

noun heraldry, crest, insignia, escutcheon, blazonry the family coat of arms