Emblem: nm (word coming from the Latin emblema, Greek emblêma “added ornament, mosaic”).
The word “emblem” has several meanings:
1. Symbolic figure usually accompanied by a motto.
Quote from the French writer and philosopher Voltaire (1694-1778): He “imagined for Louis XIV the emblem of a sun darting its rays on a globe”.
2. By extension: Figure, attribute intended to represent an authority, a profession, a party (badge, symbol).
Mercury's emblem is the...
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