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HERALDIC BEARING

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Dictionary entry overview: What does heraldic bearing mean?

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

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

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

Dictionary entry details

• HERALDIC BEARING (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

armorial bearing; heraldic bearing; bearing; charge

Hypernyms ("heraldic 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 "heraldic bearing"):

annulet; roundel ((heraldry) a charge in the shape of a circle)

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)

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