What does armigerous mean?
Armigerous means Entitled to bear a coat of arms..
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/ɑːˈmɪ.dʒə.ɹəs/ · adjective
Entitled to bear a coat of arms..
Mr. Udal suggests that an armigerous woman who marries a non-armigerous man may still display her own arms. But how? Her husband has no shield, so where are the wife's arms to go?
Although the rolls of arms upon which Denholm-Young relied so heavily do not after all show that the esquires became armigerous in about 1370, it is still significant that the arms of esquires which were not emblazoned on the Parliamentary, Carlisle or Dunstable Rolls should appear for the first time on a roll of arms in about 1370.
Use armigerous when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Armigerous means Entitled to bear a coat of arms..
Common synonyms include armigeral.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Mr. Udal suggests that an armigerous woman who marries a non-armigerous man may still display her own arms. But how? Her husband has no shield, so where are the wife's arms to go?
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