phaleristics

Definitions

The study of orders, fraternity, and award items.

rare, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“For a longer and less well-focused systematising definition of the themes of phaleristics, see⟳ Attila Pandula, 'Orden und Auszeichnungen — Besondere Spiegelbilder der Geschichte', in Das Erste und Zweite Gunzenhäuser Phaleristik-Symposium (Offenach am Main, 1997), 16-21).”

“The study⟳ of orders has evolved into a discipline of its own⟳, called phaleristics (coined after the Roman order⟳, phalera).”

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