ARMORIAL BEARING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does armorial bearing mean? 

• ARMORIAL BEARING (noun)
  The noun ARMORIAL BEARING has 1 sense:

1. heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield

  Familiarity information: ARMORIAL BEARING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARMORIAL BEARING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

armorial bearing; bearing; charge; heraldic bearing

Hypernyms ("armorial bearing" is a kind of...):

heraldry (emblem indicating the right of a person to bear arms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "armorial bearing"):

roundel ((heraldry) a charge in the shape of a filled circle)

annulet ((heraldry) a charge in the shape of a small ring)

chevron (an inverted V-shaped charge)

fleur-de-lis; fleur-de-lys ((heraldry) charge consisting of a conventionalized representation of an iris)

ordinary ((heraldry) any of several conventional figures used on shields)