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User_gary Posted 16 years ago
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Ruling on, blazoning arms
The profession, study, or art of devising, granting, and blazoning arms, tracing genealogies, and determining and ruling on questions of rank or protocol, as exercised by an officer of arms.
Please explain to me the highlighted parts. Though I know "blazoning" means "to decorate".
Please explain to me the highlighted parts. Though I know "blazoning" means "to decorate".
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To blazon arms has a couple of meanings. Here, I think it is this one: to describe in heraldic terminology . The arms must be described in very specific terms by an expert at that craft.
- To blazon arms has a couple of meanings.
- Here, I think it is this one: to describe in heraldic terminology .
- The arms must be described in very specific terms by an expert at that craft.
- Here's an example of a blazon: Lozengy Or and gules ermined Or, on a chief indented Or a cat couchant purpure.
- Rule on = make an official decision about
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To blazon arms has a couple of meanings. Here, I think it is this one: to describe in heraldic terminology. The arms must be des
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