• n. From an uncertain origin, but related to the Anglo-Norman "bage". The Middle English forms "baggys" "bageous" lately "badg" "bage" "baig" into others. A representation of a heraldic symbol worn as an identifying mark by a knight and his retainers. Lately means any distinctive device, emblem, or mark worn to indicate a person's affiliation, rank, office, name, etc., or membership of an organization or support for a cause.

• Heraldic motif

• emblem

• Simpson, John; Weiner, Edmund (eds). The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989. [www.oed.com]

• http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300264087
• depiction > object

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