| 单词 | badge of arms | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasbadge of arms  a.  Originally: a heraldic symbol worn as an identifying mark by a knight and his retainers (= cognizance n. 5a; sometimes more fully  badge of arms). In later use: any distinctive device, emblem, or mark worn to indicate a person's affiliation, rank, office, name, etc., or membership of an organization or support for a cause; (now esp.) a small piece of metal, card, plastic, etc., bearing a distinguishing design or words (and now often worn purely for ornament).cap-, merit, name badge, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > 			[noun]		 > badge livery1399 badge1440 scutcheon1442 entresign1480 token1516 marklet1647 α.  β. 1486    Bk. St. Albans Heraldry B ij a  				Theys bastardis shall adde more bagy to his armys or take a way a bagy of armys.a1509    King Henry VII Will 		(1775)	 37  				The hoole sute of Vestiments and Coopies of clothe of gold tissue, wrought with our badgies of rede Roses and Poortcoleys.a1522    G. Douglas tr.  Virgil Æneid 		(1957)	  ii. vii. 55  				His schynand scheild with his bawgy tuk he.1544    P. Betham tr.  J. di Porcia Preceptes Warre  i. sig. Gv  				Of the badgies of the souldyours.?1617    Inscription in  J. S. Richardson  & M. Wood Edinb. Castle 		(1929)	 13  				Lord Jesu Chryst that crounit was with Thornse, Preserve the Birth quhais Badgie heir is borne [sc. in the chamber where James VI of Scotland was born in 1566].  Promptorium Parvulorum 		(Harl. 221)	 20  				Bage or bagge of armys: Banidium. c1440    Thornton MS lf. 141, in  J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words 		(1847)	 I. 132/2  				He beris of golde a semely sighte, His bagges are sabylle ylkane. c1450						 (?a1400)						    Wars Alexander 		(Ashm.)	 l. 4181  				It [sc. rede fire] tinds on tend lowe trappour of stede,..Bages & baners it blemyschid. a1460    in  Archaeologia 		(1814)	 17 226 (MED)  				The Dukeshyp of Yorke with the Badges ben the Fawcon and the Feturlocke. 1530    J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement f. 196/1  				Badge of a gentylman—la deuise dung seignevr. 1569    R. Grafton Chron. II. 650  				He gaue the Sunne in his full brightnesse for his Cognisaunce or Badge. c1600    Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents 		(1833)	 158  				My lord regentis armes and bage. 1618    S. Rowlands Sacred Memorie 50  				The Crosse, which Christians for their badge do weare. 1678    Spanish Hist. 131  				To wear a badg that they may beg alms. ?1710    Famous & Renowned Hist. Hunting on Chevy-Chase ii. sig. A3  				In came a Messenger in a scarlet Livery, laced with Gold, and a Badge of Arms on a Plate of Silver, fastned on his Breast. 1783    T. Percy Let. 19 June in  Percy Lett. 		(1954)	 IV. 150  				What I put up were some of the old Badges and Connoissances of the ancient Earls of Northumbd together with their arms. 1800    P. Colquhoun Treat. Commerce & Police R. Thames xi. 328  				They have their names and numbers on a metal Badge. 1836    Tait's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 486b  				The Mackenzie's badge is the deer-hair. 1884    Manch. Examiner 28 Nov. 5/1  				He also declared that he incited no one to rip off Gladstone badges at the meeting. 1902    M. Jourdain  & A. Dryden Palliser's Hist. Lace 		(rev. ed.)	 iv. 66  				Milanese lace frequently has coats-of-arms or family badges woven in it. 1937    H. Jennings et al.  May 12th Mass-observ. Day-surv.  i. iii. 194  				Newsagent's wife asks me to buy a tricolour badge, 6d.; I do so. 1987    E. E. Smith Miss Melville Returns 		(1988)	 xxiii. 190  				Attached to [the beret] by what looked vaguely like a Girl Scout badge was a jaunty lavender feather. 2003    N. Slater Toast 146  				My father had Robertson's orange [marmalade] instead and let me send off the labels for golly badges. < as lemmas  | 
	
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