ARMORIAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does armorial mean? 

• ARMORIAL (adjective)
  The adjective ARMORIAL has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to heraldry or heraldic arms

  Familiarity information: ARMORIAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARMORIAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to heraldry or heraldic arms

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

armorial bearing

Domain category:

heraldry (the study and classification of armorial bearings and the tracing of genealogies)

Pertainym:

arms (the official symbols of a family, state, etc.)

 Context examples 

Away behind him as far as eye could reach rolled the far-stretching, unbroken river of steel—rank after rank and column after column, with waving of plumes, glitter of arms, tossing of guidons, and flash and flutter of countless armorial devices.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)