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The image shows a Scottish clan's badge. The image shows four badges. The Italian badge looks like a rope; the Welsh badge looks like a leek; the French badge looks like a hedgehog wearing a crown; and the English badge looks like a rose wearing a crown.
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    In heraldry: The badge

    The badge is older than the heraldic system. Such a symbol identifying a person, a body, or an impersonal idea can be found from ancient times. The eagle of Rome was one of the state’s symbols and was the special device of the legions.…

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    In heraldry: The reading of heraldry

    The badge is rarely found, except among very ancient families (and, by a strange inversion, in some 20th-century grants), but when it occurs it, too, comes at the end of the blazon. It can be very simple, as with that of Lord Mowbray, Segrave, and Stourton—a…

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