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heraldic - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Adjective

heraldic (comparative more heraldic, superlative most heraldic)

• Of, or relating to heraldry or heralds.
  • ✤ a heraldic device
  • ✤ Synonym: heraldric
  • ✤ Antonym: unheraldic
  • ✤ That ceiling was covered with square compartments, each filled with strange figures, flowers, fruit, heraldic devices—all blazoned in the richest colours,…¹

Etymology

From herald +‎ -ic; probably modelled on French héraldique.²³

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ældɪk

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Footnotes

1. 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 113: ↩

2. “heraldic, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. ↩

3. Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “heraldic (adj.)”, in Online Etymology Dictionary. ↩

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