augmentation of honour

heraldry

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In heraldry: The nature and origins of heraldic terminology
…more easily discerned in the augmentations of honour, as they are called, when something has been added to a coat of arms by the (British) crown in recognition of services rendered. The arms of the British naval hero Admiral Horatio Nelson show new heraldic charges added to his ancestral arms…
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