mantling
lambrequin

On the helmet with its red and gold mantling is an open black wing.

Above the shield is a knight's helmet with red and sky blue mantling.

The mantling is in the national colours of Canada.

A crest was added, shown atop a helm and decorative mantling.

The mantling is red and silver.

He doubted himself a second later; with every step the patriarch took toward his throne, he assumed a heavier mantling of distinction.

The mantling of peers is emblazoned gules, doubled ermine.

He looked about him wildly, bemazed and bewildered, seeing only the still plants with their mantling of profuse leafage.

I looked down at my black canvas duster, with its heavy mantling and waterproof lining and sleeves actually long enough for my arms.

The mantling is displayed around the shield without a helm or torse, in a manner unusual to traditional heraldic practice.

He also designed the mantling of the Anderson Memorial Bridge over the Charles River.

For another, the dark conical trees that pecked out through the mantling of white were even more alien to his eye than the Big Uglies.

The mantling is the material around the crest and in this case it is red ("mantled gules.")

The Beaupré panels are slightly larger and older than the Bell panels; throughout the mantling is particularly fine.

This in turn sits upon the Royal Helm from both sides of which flow the gold and ermine mantling of the royal family.

There are rare examples where the mantling is blazoned to compliment the armiger's coat of arms, mimicking the ordinaries and charges on the escutcheon.

The mantling is sometimes conventionally depicted with a ragged edge, as if damaged in combat, though the edges of most are simply decorated at the emblazoner's discretion.

Color, growing things - There were none such in the Limits, yet he recognized them for what they were instantly: a mantling of rich, tall-growing grass and - flowers.

The mantling is often a combination of more than two tinctures, the most common being blue and gold on the dexter side and red and silver on the sinister.

Torse and Mantling: Below the arms, the motto in Greek letters, Dikaia Upotheke.

Over their stall, their heraldic devices are displayed: The Knight's helm, decorated with a mantling (cloth tied to the helpmet) and topped by his crest (often an animal).

The age of eruption is currently unknown, but it is older than 28,500 years as it has a mantling of volcanic ash erupted at that time from Three Kings volcano.

The mantling of the Black Loyalist Heritage Society is a unique example in which the mantling is of two furs (ermines, lined ermine).

Its central element is the coat of arms, crowned with the helmet of Alexander Nevsky, with black and golden mantling, and flanked by the archangels Michael and Gabriel.

It was a large, two-story house, overshaded by ancient oaks and dark with a mantling of unchecked ivy, among hedges of unpruned privet and shrubbery that had gone wild for many years.

A dead man (he had, I think, been suffocated with a lambrequin, there being those who practice that art) lay at the corner.

A cloth-of-gold lambrequin draped the mantel of the small fireplace.

Swallow was wearing mail, with a leaf-green felt lambrequin tucked into the neck.

ONCE household words, the terms lambrequin, hassock and antimacassar have gone the way of the hoop skirt and the bustle.

His mouth was entirely hidden by a scraggly, gray-shot moustache, all the hairs of which grew downward, forming a kind of lambrequin to his lips.

For the rockclimbing move, see Mantle (climbing) In heraldry, mantling or lambrequin is drapery tied to the helmet above the shield.

On my arrival late one afternoon, I walked into an elegant, bright, splendid reception room and parlor with tall ceilings and windows hung with lambrequin or other gracefully adorned draperies.

A high crimson curtain hung behind the pulpit arranged in a row of straight folds or "flutes", like the pipes of a great organ topped with a straight lambrequin of the same material.

I did but ask her yesternight for her green veil, that I might bear it as a token or lambrequin upon my helm; but she flashed out at me that she kept it for a better man, and then all in a breath asked pardon for that she had spoke so rudely.