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EMBLEM (Gr. E3Xysa, something put in or inserted, from EfiiXAew, to throw in)

This article appears in Volume V09, Page 308 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ECG-EMS

EMBLEM (Gr. E3Xysa, something put in or inserted, from EfiiXAew, to throw in) , a word originally applied in

Greek

GREEK
GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

and Latin (emblema) to a raised or inlaid

ornament

ORNAMENT (Lat. ornare, to adorn)

on vases and other vessels, &c., and also to

mosaic

MOSAIC (corresponding to Lat. opus musivum, from Gr. ľovoeiov, an artificial grotto often decorated with mosaics; the word is only found in the sense of mosaic in late Greek, which generally uses k oXI yrlľa)

or

tessellated

TESSELLATED (Lat. tessellatus,)

work

WORK

. It is in

English

ENGLISH

confined to a symbolical

representation

REPRESENTATION

of some

object

OBJECT

, particularly when used as a badge or heraldic

device

DEVICE

.

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