What is "coats of arms"

Usage examples of "coats of arms".

All being, at last, in readiness, five heralds in coats of arms mounted the platform, and stationed themselves upon it, awaiting the lords coming forth from the Parliament House.

Lord Jack was still behind them, deep in that man who called himself Keith Cavanaugh and made coats of arms in lustrous frames.

A large parchment document hung above the table, in a severe gold frame, boasting several coats of arms and with the signature of the Emperor Franz-Josef at the bottom.

Then we gazed round us at the high, thin window of old stained glass, the oak panelling, the stags' heads, the coats of arms upon the walls, all dim and sombre in the subdued light of the central lamp.

The walls were cleaned, the roof slabs replaced where necessary, and new coats of arms were chiseled over the entrances to replace those of the original builders.

It was dark enough that the lights had come on atop Bernini's colonnade to illuminate statuary and the stone papal coats of arms there.

But the people, so often as it joined them, saw on their hindquarters the old feudal coats of arms, and deserted with loud and irreverent laughter.

This time the grains did not form a tower, but rather a complicated symbol, like unto one of the coats of arms those of the Old Race used.