coat armour

"I'll have two blue stars and a jack in my coat-armour," thought I, as I bowed to the Duke, who made himself singularly graceful.

A horn or trumpet borne in this shape in English and German coat-armour.

By their coat-armour the heralds knew they were of the blood-royal of Thebes; two cousins, the sons of two sisters.

Peter Le Neve spent his life in gathering important papers about coat-armour and pedigrees.