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What is a coat of arms?

What is a coat of arms? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (heraldry) hereditary designs and symbols depicted on an escutcheon, sometimes accompanied by other elements of a heraldic achievement, such as a helm, crest, crest coronet, torse, mantling and supporters; described by a blazon
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The coat of arms with its elaborate rococo style mantling has almost no identifiable Chinese precedent.
The smiling father sports a rifle nestled at his hip and wears a hat emblazoned with a coat of arms.
He also painted a tondo of the Pieta bearing Philip's coat of arms on the back, and he painted and gilded Sluter's statues.
Every church building had to display the royal coat of arms on the chancel arch in place of the rood.
On the center band is a coat of arms with a green-and-red quetzal, the national bird.
By the later Middle Ages, the right to a coat of arms had become a matter for social pride and strict control.

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