"armorial bearing" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1846, Mr. M. A. Titmarsh [pseudonym; W. M. Thackeray], chapter VIII, in Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo […] , London: Chapman and Hall, page 140:",
          "text": "[…]when the French seized Malta they were by no means so delicate. They effaced armorial bearings with their usual hot-headed eagerness; and a few years after they had torn down the coats of arms of the gentry, the heroes of Malta and Egypt were busy devising heraldry for themselves, and were wild to be barons and counts of the empire.",
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        "Heraldry that consists of a design or image depicted on a shield."
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        "(heraldry) Heraldry that consists of a design or image depicted on a shield."
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  "word": "armorial bearing"
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