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Home Dictionary Name: herald Page: 2Tenne
Tenne, tawny, orange, or brusk; orange colour.In engravings it should be represented by lines in bend sinister crossed by others barways. Heralds who blazon by the names of the heavenly bodies call it dragon's head, and those who employ jewels, jacinth. It is one of the colours called stainand, Heraldic term....
Champion of the King (or Queen)
Champion of the King (or Queen), an ancient officer, whose duty (hereditary in the family of Scrivelsby in Lincolnshire) it was to ride armed cap-a-pie into Westminster Hall at the coronation, while the king was at dinner, and by the proclamation of a herald, make a challenge, 'that if any man shall deny the King's title to the crown, he is there ready to defend it in single combat.' The king drank to hi, and sent him a gilt cup covered, full of wine, which the champion drank, retaining the cup for his fee. The ceremony, long discontinued, was revived at the coronation of George IV., but not afterwards....
Heraldship
The office of a herald...
Henchman
Henchman, a page; an attendant; a herald....
Blazoner
One who gives publicity proclaims or blazons esp one who blazons coats of arms a herald...
Herald
An officer whose business was to denounce or proclaim war to challenge to battle to proclaim peace and to bear messages from the commander of an army He was invested with a sacred and inviolable character...
Heraldry
The art or office of a herald the art practice or science of recording genealogies and blazoning arms or ensigns armorial also of marshaling cavalcades processions and public ceremonies...
Coherald
A joint herald...
Heraud
A herald...
Outcrier
One who cries out or proclaims a herald or crier...
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