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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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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.
The coat of arms with its elaborate rococo style mantling has almost no identifiable Chinese precedent.
On the center band is a coat of arms with a green-and-red quetzal, the national bird.
The town is on the site of an important river crossing, where there is a masoned bridge, as shown on the municipal coat of arms.
He had a delicately masoned stone plaque built into a wall by the fortress bearing his coat of arms and the year of construction.
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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