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a picture that swears an oath your words could never quite manage
means A symbol or design that stands for an idea, group, or quality — a badge of meaning made visible.
from From Greek emblema, 'something inserted or laid on,' built from en- ('in') plus ballein ('to throw'). It first meant a piece of inlaid or mosaic ornament — a bit of decoration set into a surface — before passing through Latin and reaching English by the 16th century with its modern sense of a symbolic figure or device.
- origin
- Greek for something inserted or set in
- renaissance craze
- emblem books paired images with cryptic mottoes
- heraldry
- medieval emblems let illiterate troops identify their lords
- power move
- corporations spend millions perfecting a single symbol
- national pride
- every flag is an emblem demanding loyalty
for instance
apple logo — bitten apple emblem designed by rob janoff in 1977 for apple computer company
olympic rings — five interlocking rings emblem created by pierre de coubertin, first used 1920 olympics