Hex sign, emblem painted on a barn, especially in Pennsylvania Dutch country, an agricultural region in southeastern Pennsylvania largely settled by German immigrants who have preserved ethnic custom and identification to a high degree (see Pennsylvania German).
In Los Angeles, the edifices that get destroyed are always, without exception, the Capitol Records building, followed by the Hollywood sign – two emblems of the entertainment industry, two instances of the entertainment industry's bottomless self-loathing.
Similarly, camouflage that involves misuse of enemy, UN, protective, or neutral signs, flags and emblems is banned.
The leadership of the tramway was transferred to the German occupants, who printed tickets and signs with Nazi emblems on them.
All signs in English and emblems of South Korea affixed to the American officials' cars had to be covered.
By the early 1960s, he developed a genre of abstract Pop centered on geometric emblems and signs that he started fashioning into painted reliefs.
The daily proximity to New York street signs and artifacts and emblems makes Canadians comfortable with the foibles of life down south.
They pointed to conventions that have traditionally offered special protection to national symbols, like flags, emblems, official signs and other hallmarks.
The paper pieces are rich in materials -- ink, oil paint, spray paint, gold and silver leaf -- and scraped and sanded so they look burnished, like manuscript pages filled with archaic emblems, personal signs and contemporary talismans.
In the 1990's, the "Now Hiring" sign became an emblem of prosperity.
