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Definition of Martlets
1. martlet [n] - See also: martlet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Martlets
Literary usage of Martlets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great by John Woody Papworth (1874)
"Gu. eight martlets in orle or and a crescent (? for And with a (crescent, ...
Paly bendy az. and gu. eight martlets in orle three two and three or. ..."
2. Sussex Archaeological Collections Relating to the History and Antiquities of by Sussex Archaeological Society (1890)
"It now behoves us to inquire if the 6 martlets of Sussex could have had an armorial
origin in the county from any family who bore those charges. ..."
3. Franks Bequest: Catalogue of British and American Book Plates Bequeathed to by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks, Edward Russel James Gambier Howe, British Museum Dept. of Prints and Drawings, Sidney Colvin (1904)
"Arg. three martlets gu. on a chief engr. of the last three annulets or. Cowper.
... Per bend sinister arg. and sa. six martlets counterchanged. Allen. ..."
4. The British Herald; Or, Cabinet of Armorial Bearings of the Nobility ...by Thomas Robson by Thomas Robson (1830)
"DELAMORE, ar. seven martlets sa. three, three, and one. Delamore, sa. a cross
flory and an escallop in the first six mai lias sa. three, two, and one. ..."
5. Display of Heraldry by William Newton (1846)
"Azure, on a chief or three martlets gules, is borne by the name of Wray; Arge'nt,
a chevron sable, and on a chief of the second three martlets of the field, ..."
6. Heraldry, Historical and Popular by Charles Boutell (1864)
"179,) differenced their golden fesse with six martlets : and Sir JOHN DE LACY
bears or, a fesse and in chief three martlets gu.: Sir S. DE CHENEY bears the ..."
7. An Armory of the Western Counties (Devon and Cornwall).: From the by Sabine Baring-Gould, Robert Twigge (1898)
"Gules, 2 bars and an orle of martlets arg: V. of Devon 1620. ... gules 3 martlets
arg: "Q. by Bluet ; in Mr. Poole's book by name of Fitz Roger and ..."
8. The Visitation of London in the Year 1568: Taken by Robert Cooke, Clarenceux by Robert Cooke (1869)
"... three martlets sable as many crescents or, each ARMS. Ermine, on a pale gules
a cross flory or, on a chief sable a billet of the third within a mascle ..."
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