单词 | vallar |
释义 | vallaradj. Roman History. Of a crown or garland: Bestowed as a distinction on the first soldier to mount the enemy's rampart. (Cf. mural adj.1 1.) ΚΠ 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 255 Augustus used to geve golden trappour muche sooner..then garlandes, vallares, and muralles. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxii. iii. 115 The Vallare and Murall Chaplets bestowed upon brave knights and valiant souldiors, who..mounted the wals in the assault of a citie. a1660 in J. T. Gilbert Contemp. Hist. Ireland (1880) II. 62 To whom shall be given now the ciuicke, murall, vallare, and naualls garlands, that the Romaines were wont to graunte theire respectiue conquerours? 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Vallar Crown. 1725 J. Coats New Dict. Heraldry (1739) at Crown There were also among the Romans several sorts of Crowns, or Garlands, given to those who had perform'd some signal Services in War, and were known by the Names of Triumphal, Civick, Vallar, Mural, Naval, and Obsidional. c1828 W. Berry Encycl. Her. i. Gloss. DerivativesΚΠ 1777 ‘M. A. Porny’ Elements Heraldry (ed. 3) 207 The Vallary or Castrense-Crown was of gold, formed like a circle with Pales or Pallisadoes on the top of it. 1863 J. B. Burke Viciss. Families 3rd Ser. 143 His famous attack on the..Earl of Desmond, at Kilmallock, where he won his gold spurs, and his vallary crown. ΚΠ 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iv. iv. 294/2 He beareth for his crest, a Greyhounds head sable, out of a crowne Vallariall, Or. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < adj.1542 |
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