a. Roman Antiq. [ad. L. vallār-is, f. vall-um or vall-us rampart. Cf. It. vallare, Sp. valar, F. vallaire.] Of a crown or garland: Bestowed as a distinction on the first soldier to mount the enemy’s rampart. (Cf. MURAL a.1 1 b.)
1542. Udall, Erasm. Apoph., 255. Augustus used to geve golden trappour muche sooner … then garlandes, vallares, and muralles.
1600. Holland, Pliny, II. 115. The Vallare and Murall Chaplets bestowed upon brave knights and valiant souldiers, who … mounted the wals in the assault of a citie.
a. 1660. Contemp. Hist. Irel. (Ir. Archæol. Soc.), II. 62. To whom shall be given now the ciuicke, murall, vallare, and naualls garlands, that the Romaines were wont to graunte their respectiue conquerours?
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), s.v., Vallar Crown.
1725. [see GARLAND sb. 3 c].
c. 1828. Berry, Encycl. Her., I. Gloss.
So Vallary a. Also † Vallarial a. Obs.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, IV. iv. (Roxb.), 294/2. He beareth for his crest, a Greyhounds head sable, out of a crowne Vallariall, Or.
1777. Porny, Heraldry (ed. 3), 207. The Vallary or Castrense-Crown was of gold, formed like a circle with Pales or Pallisadoes on the top of it.
1863. Burke, Viciss. Families, Ser. III. 143. His famous attack on the … Earl of Desmond, at Kilmallock, where he won his gold spurs, and his vallary crown.
