armorial bearing

Questions about armorial bearing

What does armorial bearing mean?

armorial bearing means "heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield".

What is another word for armorial bearing?

Close synonyms include charge, bearing, heraldic bearing. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is armorial bearing a common word?

armorial bearing is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.