phaleristics

noun

1. The study of orders, fraternity, and award items.

   rare, uncountable

   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).

Where it comes from

From German Phaleristik, from Latin phalera, from Ancient Greek Φάληρος (Phálēros, “Phalerus, a mythological hero”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry phaleristics (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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