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heraldic

he ral dik

  • s  indicative of or announcing something to come
    the Beatles were heraldic of a new style of music
  • a  of or relating to heraldry

  • When Orwell describes how "a tuktoo clung to the wall, flat and motionless like a heraldic dragon," I know exactly what he is talking about: as a writer living in northern Thailand .
  • Yonder rears a clean pocket-size replica of heraldic Warwick Castle-yonder drowses a nausey old nance.
  • When there is no known coat of arms for a family, Halbert's will create one using heraldic symbols that suggest the family's country of origin.
Quotes

  • Gerald Durrell in Al-Ahram Weekly
    In December 1936, Durrell wrote to the American writer Henry Miller about this book: "Have planned the heraldic book, but lack reference books on psychology, the pathology of childhood, cretinism, genius, etc. LET US KILL THE LITERARY MEN ONCE AND...
  • Gilbert and George in guardian.co.uk
    Nobody has a good word to say for pubic lice,George says. "They don't appear in art galleries or museums. They are very discriminated against. So we determined to tidy some of them up and make them look grand and heraldic - a coat of arms....

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