List of Heraldry Terms

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Words and phrases used in blazoning heraldic devices, along with names and other terms associated with the art and science.

Other similar lists can be found on Wordnik, especially that by sionnach called, simply, Heraldry; and the lists Medieval Heraldry, and Heraldica.

Many of the descriptive terms naturally and happily find a satisfactory place on my list Adjectival Arcana, while a few, such as barwise and bendwise, appear also on my list Adverbia.

"Of the first was he to bare arms and a name: Wassaily Boos-laeugh of Riesengeborg. His crest of huroldry, in vert with ancillars, troublant, argent, a hegoak, poursuivant, horrid, horned. His scutschum fessed, with archers strung, helio, of the second." --Finnegans Wake