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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An emblem or device with a motto.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A device: an Italian term often used in English, especially of such devices as were peculiarly personal in their character. See device, 7, and impress, n., 2. Also imprese.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Her.) A device on a shield or seal, or used as a bookplate or the like.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun heraldry A device on a shield or seal, or used as a bookplate etc.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Italian, undertaking, impresa; see impresario.]

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Italian

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