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Atomic heraldry - Definition |
| Related Words: Badge, Badges, Baton, Blazonry, Brassard, Button, Chain, Circumstance, Cockade, Collar, Cross, Decoration, Dress, Eagle, Emblems, Fasces, Figurehead, Insignia |
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Atomic heraldry is heraldry characterised by the appearance of charges including the atom or showing the motion of parts of the atom; more loosely, it may describe heraldry in which atoms or the component parts thereof are represented through a combination of other charges. Obviously, this is a late development in heraldry.
The arms of Saint-Vulbas, Ain, France (http://www.ngw.nl/int/fra/s/s-vulbas.htm) show "a sign of" the atom.
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