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As the coat of arms was originally designed to distinguish combatants on the battlefield or in a tournament, even while covered in armour, it is not surprising that heraldic elements were often also used for the decoration of knightly helmets, while it was also possible to use different elements than on the shield, but equally standardized.
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Alfred Korzybski's family coat-of-arms ( List of Polish coats of arms Abdank coat of arms )
* Abatement ( heraldry ), a modification of the shield or coat of arms that supposedly can be imposed by authority ( in England supposedly by the Court of Chivalry ) for misconduct
The town has had a coat of arms since 1338, that of the Counts of Abensberg.
With the death of the last Count, Nicholas of Abensberg, in 1485, the estates fell to the Duchy of Bavaria-Munich, meaning that henceforth only the Bavarian coat of arms was ever used.
On 31 December 1809, a decree of King Maximilian of Bavaria granted the city a new coat of arms, as a recognition of their ( mainly humanitarian and logistic ) services in the Battle of Abensberg the same year.
The district of Offenstetten previously possessed its own coat of arms.
Alder coat of arms of Grossarl, Austria
Alder is illustrated in the coat of arms for the Austrian town of Grossarl.
* 2004 – The National Assembly of Serbia unanimously adopts new state symbols for Serbia: Bože pravde becomes the new anthem and the coat of arms is adopted for the whole country.
A very small number of his instruments survive, dated between the years of 1560 and 1574 and most bearing the coat of arms of Charles IX of France.
Alphonse's coat of arms was formed of those of France ( left ) and Castile ( right ), representing his father and mother respectively: Per pale azure semé-de-lis or dimidiating gules semé of castles or
In 1974, Acadia was granted a coat of arms designed by the College of Arms in London, England.
The coat of arms is two-tone, with the school's official colours, garnet and blue, on the shield.
Dürer's own woodcut of his coat of arms
The blazon of the coat of arms is Per pale, dexter: sable, a fess wavy argent, charged with two cotises wavy azure ; sinister: sky blue, three mullets of five argent.
The Non-Commissioned Officer insignia are the same up until Warrant Officer ranks, where they are stylised for Australia ( for example, using the Australian, rather than the British coat of arms ).
Folk etymology connects it to the German Bär, a bear, and a bear appears in the coat of arms of the city.
Even the symbols of Bosnian statehood ( flag, coat of arms ) have been chosen by the Highest Representative rather than by the Bosnian people.
In 2001, the National Guard unit was designated an official military unit of the Bulgarian army and one of the symbols of state authority, along with the flag, the coat of arms and the national anthem.
One form for the coat of arms of a Roman Catholic bishop.
The coat of arms of a Latin Rite Catholic bishop usually displays a galero with a cross and crosier behind the escutcheon ; the specifics differ by location and ecclesiastical rank ( see Ecclesiastical heraldry ).
An Eastern bishop's coat of arms will normally display an Eastern-style mitre, cross, eastern style crosier and a red and white ( or red and gold ) mantle.
Former coat of arms of Abella de la Conca, Lleida, Spain
The heraldic blazon for the coat of arms of the barony is: Or, a saltire gules, on a chief of the last a martlet of the field.
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He'd put on his old brown corduroy coat and it was already soaked.
He was puffing on a cigar, and he was turning up his coat collar against the rain.
She was still hugging the stained coat around her, so I said, `` Relax, let me take your things.
She was wearing nothing beneath the coat.
She was not an overnight guest in the White House, but Mr. Ike Hoover, the chief usher, had Mama check her fur coat when she came in, and take care of her needs.
His coat trimmed in sable, diamond stars of the Orders of Saints Andrew or George agleam, he was often prone to sit sulkily, eye downcast, in a Scheherazade trance.
But whenever a major purchase was contemplated forty years ago -- a new bedroom set or a winter coat, an Easter bonnet, a bicycle for Junior -- the family set off for the downtown department store, where the selection would be greatest.
He carried three guns -- one in the right trouser pocket, one under his left armpit, one in the left outside coat pocket -- and was equally lethal with both hands.
As he went out he told Freddie the dinner was perfect, and when he got his hat and coat from Nancy Parks and put a fifty-cent piece in the slot, he told her to be sure that it went toward her dowry.
Everything was as I had left it the night before last -- her portfolio and bag for town, her lingerie and dress and shoes laid out only her mink coat was missing.
The connection many of them had with the church was of the slenderest kind, consisting mainly in adopting the title of abbé, after a remarkably moderate course of theological study, practising celibacy and wearing a distinctive dress — a short dark-violet coat with narrow collar.
The coat of plates was developed, an armour made of large plates sewn inside a textile or leather coat.
It was crossed as well with the Russian Laika specifically and singularly to add resistance against Northern cold and a longer and thicker coat than the Southern sighthounds were equipped with.
The bishop's crook was however retained as the city's coat of arms.
Chromium oxide was used by the Chinese in the Qin dynasty over 2, 000 years ago to coat weapons such as bronze crossbow bolts and steel swords found at the Terracotta Army.
In honor of this event, the Colonna family was granted the privilege of using the imperial pointed crown on top of their coat of arms.
A waist-length coat in medieval Europe was called a byrnie, although the exact construction of a byrnie is unclear.
Other historians claim instead that the Carolingian byrnie was nothing more than a coat of mail, but longer and perhaps heavier than traditional early medieval mail.
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