emblem

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You may call him Plantagenet, for his emblem is the lowly broom; but since his modesty keeps him in the background, we will leave him there.

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  1. noun An object or a representation that functions as a symbol. See Synonyms at sign.
  2. noun A distinctive badge, design, or device: trucks marked with the company emblem; the emblem of the air force.
  3. noun An allegorical picture usually inscribed with a verse or motto presenting a moral lesson.

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  • "Navy" about this watch is the emblem from a Italian Naval Academy in Livorno. —  MyLinkVault Newest Links
  • There is no red colour background in LTTE emblem, which is differentiated from the national flag. —  TamilNet Newswire
  • With the wheel mounted and the lug bolts properly torqued down all that was left was to install the cover, but first the emblem is attached. —  webBikeWorld.com
  • Florio used a flower for his emblem, and had inscribed under his portrait in the 1611 edition of his Worlde of Wordes Floret adhuc et adhuc florebit Florius haec specie floridus optat amans The frequent references to the characters of the Iliad in this act and scene of Love's Labour's Lost link the period of its insertion with the date of the original composition of Troilus and Cressida in, or about, 1598, to which time I have also assigned the revision of Love's Labour's Won into All's Well that Ends Well_, and the development of Parolles into a misleader of youth Another phase of Act V. Scene ii. —  Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592
  • Men wearing the circle whose diameter was etched in ruby steel enclosing a background of gleaming ebon--the emblem was a silver D over a sunburst of hammered gold The surface of Miracastle roiled with unfamiliar storms and tornados and hurricanes. —  General Max Shorter
 

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symbol ·  insignia ·  badge ·  monument ·  banner ·  ornament ·  relic ·  token ·  attribute ·  sign ·  shrine ·  conception

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emblem:   emblems
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  1. Middle English, pictorial fable, from Latin emblēma, raised ornament, from Greek, embossed design, from emballein, to insert, set in : en-, in; see en-2 + ballein, to throw; see gwelə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = Dutch embleem = G. Danish Swedish emblem; from Old French embleme, French emblème = Spanish Portuguese emblema = Italian emblema, from Latin emblema, plural emblemata, raised ornaments on vessels, tessellated work, mosaic, from Greek ε̆μβλημα(τ-), an insertion (L. sense not recorded in Greek), from ἐμβάλλειν, put in, lay on, from ἐν, in, + βάλλειν, cast, throw, put.
  2. from emblem, n.
 

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