Sentence examples for armorial of from inspiring English sources

The Acts of Union declared that: "the Ensigns Armorial of the said United Kingdom be such as Her Majesty shall appoint".

After some manoeuvring, including the personal intervention of Winston Churchill, the new arms of Canada were eventually formally requested by an Order in Council on 30 April 1921, and adopted in November of the same year by proclamation of King George V as the "Arms or Ensigns Armorial of the Dominion of Canada," on 21 November.

The arms shown of Henry IV are those he adopted c. 1400, after simplifying the French quarters (see Armorial of Plantagenet) The east façade of the castle features a slanted shield containing the Hylton arms (Argent, two bars Azure) and a white hart (male deer), lodged, chained and collared with a coronet, Or.

Unlike other British Orders, the armorial banners of Knights and Ladies of the Thistle are not hung in the chapel, but instead in an adjacent part of St Giles High Kirk.

These animals were the real thing all right, but they were also armorial devices symbols of the countryside and lifeblood of the earth in which they were rooted.

Coronets of various forms are depicted over the armorial bearings of continental European noblemen, but they have not been made and worn as in Great Britain.

She favors an extravagantly feminine yet armorial uniform of simple clothes and heavy jewelry: stacks of silver bracelets, hoop earrings as big as handcuffs, a collar necklace hung with bells.

Just above it can be seen three coats of arms: on the right is that of the bishopric of Moray, in the middle are the Royal Arms of Scotland, and on the left is the armorial shield of Bishop Columba Dunbar (Fig. 11).

It consists of indoor sleeping quarters and outdoor exercise areas which have held as many as five bears (the armorial animal of Berlin) who are the official bears or mascots of the city.

As ranching spread across the open ranges, brands to show ownership developed into a heraldry as colourful as the armorial bearings of knighthood.

He adopted for his own use the armorial bearings of an ancient noble family with which he had no connection and assumed the honorific particle de.