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- noun heraldry The most northern of the
English Kings-at-Arms.
Etymologies
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Norrej or Norroy, that is north King, the third of the three fCmgs at Arms, whofe Office is the fame on the North - (ide of Trent, with that o (Clarenceux on the South. '
Glossographia Anglicana Nova: Or, A Dictionary, Interpreting Such Hard Words of Whatever ... 1707
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She also kept standing during the one official feature of the service; “The Proclamation by Garter, by Norroy, King of Arms, of the Style of the Deceased,” as the official programme had it, and in which the various offices which Mr. Gladstone had held in his lifetime, were enumerated.
The Grand Old Man Cook, Richard B 1989
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And the Kings-of-Arms, who command all, are from the provinces-Clarenceaux, Norroy, Ulster and the like.
Here Abide Monsters Norton, Andre 1973
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Riding, that you contemn my lawfull autority of Norroy King of
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Feb. 18 -- Allies make offensive movements; Germans give up Norroy.
New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915 Various
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On the same day, the French recaptured the village of Norroy.
The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 12) Neuve Chapelle, Battle of Ypres, Przemysl, Mazurian Lakes Francis Trevelyan Miller 1902
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In Lorraine the Germans, after having pushed back the French main guard, succeeded in occupying the height of the Xon beacon and the hamlet of Norroy.
The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 12) Neuve Chapelle, Battle of Ypres, Przemysl, Mazurian Lakes Francis Trevelyan Miller 1902
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"Montioy" is not the personal name, but the official title of a Herald of France, just as "Norroy" is not a personal name, but the official title of one of the three chief Heralds of the College of Arms of
Bacon is Shake-Speare Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence 1875
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The head of it was the officer known to later centuries as Norroy
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark Twain 1872
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The head of it was the officer known to later centuries as Norroy
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 5. Mark Twain 1872
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