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Definition of Armorists
1. armorist [n] - See also: armorist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Armorists
Literary usage of Armorists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"As in the case of many other such lists of the later armorists these eleven
varieties need some pruning and a new explanation. The most commonly found is ..."
2. The Manual of Heraldry, Being a Concise Description of Several Terms Used by Francis James Grant (1904)
"By some armorists it is called murrey. The latter word is considered obsolete.
SAPPHIRE. The name of a precious stone, formerly used to express azure. ..."
3. Handbook of Heraldry: With Instructions for Tracing Pedigrees and by John Edwin Cussans (1893)
"It might be supposed, as English armorists originally received their instruction
... The Bar, for example, is unknown to French armorists ; with them, ..."
4. The Contemporary Review (1869)
"... and Harrises would avoid the danger of perpetuating their great achievements
in such bastard heraldry as gives nothing but pain to all truo armorists, ..."
5. A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries by John Woodward (1896)
"This confusing English nomenclature is the subject of the just disapproval of
foreign armorists and it is not found in the early Rolls of Arms; where, ..."
6. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1897)
"The coats Giffard, Cumin, and Le Strange are not blazoned by armorists, as we
find them' here, so they must be taken as uncertain. that room, ..."
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