Meanings
- not comparableEntitled to bear a coat of arms.
Mr. Udal suggests that an armigerous woman who marries a non-armigerous man may still display her own arms. But how? Her husband has no shield, so where are the wife's arms to go?
1903, George Angus, "Arms of Married Women", Notes and Queries (ser. 9) 9 (Jan-Jun): 1971 more example
Although the rolls of arms upon which Denholm-Young relied so heavily do not after all show that the esquires became armigerous in about 1370, it is still significant that the arms of esquires which were not emblazoned on the Parliamentary, Carlisle or Dunstable Rolls should appear for the first time on a roll of arms in about 1370.
1981, Nigel Saul, Knights and Esquires: The Gloucestershire Gentry in the Fourteenth Century, page 23Synonyms: armigeral
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveEntitled to bear a coat of arms.
Origin
- Englisharmiger
- Proto-Indo-European*h₃ed-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₃édosder.?
- Englisharmigerous
Translations
French blasonné
- blasonnéEntitled to bear a coat of arms
Italian blasonato
- blasonatoEntitled to bear a coat of arms
Spanish blasonado, hidalgo
- blasonadoEntitled to bear a coat of arms
- hidalgoEntitled to bear a coat of arms
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with armigerous
Anagrams
Cite this entry
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