This page gathers the 487 dictionary entries belonging to the domain “Monarchy”, as labelled by Wiktionary. Each word leads to its full entry: definitions, etymology, pronunciation, examples. Page 1 of 5: from “abaissé” to “chaussé”.
- abaissé adj Of a charge, especially a fess: borne lower than usual.
- abased adj Synonym of abaissé.
- abatement noun A mark of dishonor on an escutcheon; any figure added to the coat of arms tending to lower the dignity or station of the bearer.
- abyss noun The center of an escutcheon; fess point.
- accident noun A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.
- accolé adj Joined or placed side by side (with); (of a pair of shields) displayed side by side and often leaning on or towards each other.
- accosted adj Supported on both sides by other charges.
- achievement noun An escutcheon or ensign armorial; a full display or depiction of all the heraldic components to which the bearer of a coat of arms is…
- addition noun Something added to a coat of arms, as a mark of honour.
- adumbrated adj Depicted on a shield as an outline (having the same colour(s) as the field, but often darker) instead of a solid figure. (See "further…
- adumbration noun The supposed practice of displaying only outline of a charge (“image displayed on an escutcheon”), sometimes filled in with a darker shade…
- affronté adj Face to face, or with the fronts facing each other.
- affronted adj Synonym of affronté.
- Agnus Dei noun A small model, picture, or heraldic representation of a lamb with a cross and sometimes a flag (usually white with a red cross).
- ajouré adj Depicted in the same color as the field in order to imply that one can see through the element to the field; voided of the field.
- alce noun A mythical beast resembling a griffin with no wings, often classified as a male griffin.
- alternate adj Alternating; (of e.g. a pair of tinctures which a charge is coloured) succeeding in turns, or (relative to the field) counterchanged.
- amethyst noun The tincture purpure, when blazoning by precious stones.
- anchor noun Representation of the nautical tool, used as a heraldic charge.
- ancient noun A flag, banner, standard or ensign.
- annulet noun A small circle borne as a charge in coats of arms.
- argent noun The white or silver tincture on a coat of arms.
- armed adj Having horns, claws, teeth, a beak, etc. in a particular tincture, as contrasted with that of the animal as a whole.
- armiger noun Any person entitled to bear a coat of arms.
- armorial adj Of, or relating to heraldry, or to heraldic arms.
- armorist noun A person skilled in the bearings of coats of arms, and all relating to their emblazonment.
- arms noun A visual design composed according to heraldic rules, normally displayed upon an escutcheon and sometimes accompanied by other elements of…
- Árpád stripe noun Any of the stripes (barry of eight gules and argent) forming a particular heraldic and vexillologic configuration used since the early 13th…
- arrows noun Short darts feathered at the ends.
- assumptive adj Originally, being arms which a person had a right to assume, in consequence of an exploit; now, those assumed without sanction of the…
- assurgent adj Rising out of the sea.
- astral crown noun A gold crown surmounted with eight low points. The centrals and laterals points are topped with a star, with an unspecified number of…
- at bay prep_phrase Of an animal, especially a docile animal in contrast to a predatory animal which would be blazoned statant: standing, in profile toward…
- at speed adj Courant, in full chase: running, at full stride with its legs in the air.
- attire noun The single horn of a goat, deer or stag.
- attired adj Said of the horns of an animal when they are of a different tincture to its head.
- augmentation noun A particular mark of honour, granted by the sovereign in consideration of some noble action, or by favour; and either quartered with the…
- avellane adj In the form of four unhusked filberts.
- averse adj Aversant; of a hand: turned so as to show the back.
- averted adj Turned or directed away (from something).
- azure noun A blue colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines.
- badelaire noun This sword used as a heraldic charge.
- badge noun A distinctive mark worn by servants, retainers, and followers of royalty or nobility, who, being beneath the rank of gentlemen, have no…
- ballet noun A (small) ball i.e. roundel on a coat of arms, called a bezant, plate, etc., according to colour.
- banner noun The principal standard of a knight.
- banner roll noun A small square flag containing a single escutcheon of the deceased.
- bar noun One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a diminutive of a fess.
- bar sinister noun A bend sinister or baton sinister in a coat of arms.
- barbed adj Having barbs of a certain colour (as or similar to an arrow); beared.
- baron and femme noun Man and wife.
- barry noun A field divided transversely into several equal parts, and consisting of two different tinctures interchangeably disposed.
- base noun The lowest third of a shield (or field), or an ordinary occupying this space, the champagne. (Compare terrace.)
- basilisk noun A type of dragon used in heraldry.
- baston noun Obsolete form of baton.
- baton noun A bend with the ends cut off, resembling a baton, typically borne sinister, and often used as a mark of cadency, initially for both…
- baton sinister noun A kind of bend sinister, in which a narrow strip extends from the lower left to the upper right of the shield in a coat of arms but does…
- battled adj Embattled.
- bearded adj Having barbs of a certain color.
- bearing noun Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms.
- belled adj Having bells (especially around the neck of an animal).
- bend noun One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to the sinister base; it generally occupies a…
- bend dexter noun A diagonal band on a coat of arms going (from the viewer's perspective) from top left to the bottom right.
- bend sinister noun A diagonal band on a coat of arms going from the sinister chief (the viewer's top right) to the dexter base, sometimes erroneously held to…
- bendy adj Divided into diagonal bands of colour.
- bevilled adj Notched with an angle like that enclosed by a carpenter's bevel
- bezant noun A roundel or (that is, a golden circle), the heraldic representation of a gold coin.
- billet noun A rectangle used as a charge on an escutcheon.
- blackamoor noun A person with dark black skin, especially one from north Africa.
- blasted adj Whose branches bear no leaves; leafless.
- blaze verb To blazon.
- blazer noun Synonym of blazoner (“one who blazons (“describes”) coats of arms; a herald”).
- blazon noun A verbal or written description of a coat of arms.
- botony adj Having a bud-like projection or a kind of trefoil at the end; (in particular, of a cross) having a trefoil of buds at the end of each arm.
- bottom noun A trundle or spindle of thread.
- bouget noun A charge resembling a yoke and a pair of the water bags that were formerly used to supply an army in battle.
- braced adj Interlaced.
- bretessé adj Embattled (as a bend, fesse, etc), especially if embattled-counterembattled on both sides with the projections coming opposite each other.
- brisure noun A mark of cadency or difference.
- bucket shop noun A company that sells coats of arms associated with the customer's surname, regardless of whether the customer can claim any relation to the…
- buckle noun An image of a clasp (etymology 1, noun sense 1) used as the brisure of an eighth daughter.
- caboshed adj Shown face-on, showing the full face, but cut off immediately behind the ears and hence showing nothing of the neck.
- cabré adj Rearing; forcené.
- cadence noun Cadency.
- cadency noun Any systematic way of distinguishing similar coats of arms belonging to members of the same family.
- cadet house noun Synonym of cadet branch (“house (dynasty) descended from one of the patriarch's younger sons”).
- cant verb Of a blazon, to make a pun that references the bearer of a coat of arms.
- canton noun A division of a shield occupying one third of the chief, usually on the dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top meeting a…
- cantoned adj Having a charge in each of the four corners; said of a cross on a shield, and also of the shield itself.
- carbuncle noun A charge or bearing supposed to represent the precious stone, with eight sceptres or staves radiating from a common centre; an escarbuncle.
- carnation noun The pinkish colors used in art to render human face and flesh
- Catherine wheel noun A breaking wheel.
- celeste noun Bleu celeste.
- celestial crown noun A modified eastern crown consisting of a gold fence usually adorned with points or rays topped with stars of the same metal.
- champ verb To set (a surface) with a champ (a contrasting field or background).
- champagne adj Alternative form of champaine.
- champaine adj Curved (concave), enarched, or sometimes varriated; especially in the phrase point champaine, an abatement consisting of a curved (or…
- chapé noun A division of the field, used in French heraldry, created by drawing two lines from the centre of the upper edge of the shield towards the…
- chapeau noun A cap of maintenance.
- charge verb To assume as a bearing.
- chaussé adj Divided into three with two lines from the corners of the chief to the point in base.