Shield-of-Arms
.Same as Coat of Arms; so called because persons in the Middle Ages bore their heraldic devices on their shields.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.