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coat of arms Her.
[tr. F. cotte d'armes.]
1. Hist. A coat or vest embroidered with heraldic arms; a tabard. (See armour n. 10, coat-armour 1.)
c1489Caxton Sonnes of Aymon xxvi. 555 He knewe hym well, for he bare his owne cote of armes. 1601Holland Pliny I. 497 The priest..cutteth it [misseltoe] off, and they beneath receiue it in a white soldiers cassock or coat of armes. 1654L'Estrange Chas. I (1655) 103 The Councel..caused the Herald in his coat of Armes to wind his Horn thrice.
2. The distinctive heraldic bearings of a gentleman (armiger) originally borne on a ‘coat of arms’ (sense 1); a shield, escutcheon. (See arm n.2 14, armour n. 10.)
1562Leigh Armory 27 If he come into the combate campe with his sayde wifes cote of armes. 1651Hobbes Leviath. (1839) 81 Scutcheons, and coats of arms hereditary. 1833Tennyson Lady Clara Vere de Vere ii, A simple maiden in her flower Is worth a hundred coats-of-arms.
fig.1718Freethinker No. 108. 24 The Second Letter..was sealed with a Thimble, the Coat of Arms of a Housewife. 1851Mayne Reid Scalp Hunt. xxvi, These are their [Indians'] ‘coats’ of arms, symbolical of the ‘medicine’ of the wearer.
†3. = coat of mail (coat n. 5). Obs. rare. [So F. cotte d'armes = cotte de maille.]
1613Heywood Silver Age iii. Wks. 1874 III. 131 Thus the Nemean terror naked lyes, Despoyl'd of his inuinced Coat of Armes. 1844Costello Tour Béarn & Pyrenees II. 56 An old gallery, filled with rusty coats of arms. |