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Heraldry Two
This tile set illustrates terms used to describe in proper
terms armorial bearings and their accessories. Tinctures (colors)
used are as follows: or, which signifies gold, and in color
yellow; argent, which signifies silver or white; gules, which
signifies red; azure, which signifies blue; vert, which signifies
green; purpure, which signifies purple; sable, which signifies
black; tenne, which signifies tawny or orange; and sanguine,
which signifies dark red or murrey. Furs are also used in
heraldry. The word "proper" is used to signify that the figure
used on a shield is to be represented in its natural colors.
When describing a shield the background color is first given
then the various devices that are to be placed thereon.
1. Argent, a mascle vert
2. Argent, a fess gules impaled with argent, a bend azure
3. Azure a bend or
4. Purpure, an orle or
5. Baron and wife, gules, a saltire argent, on an escutcheon of
pretense azure, a chevron or
6. Azure, three closets argent impaled with argent, a bend gules
7. Azure, two closets or
8. Argent, a bend sinister gules
9. Gules, a canton argent
10. Checky, sable and argent
11. Gules, a chevron argent
12. Or two chevronels gules
13. Argent, a cross potent rebated gules
14. Argent, a pale dancette vert
15. Quarterly per pale dovetailed, or and vert
16. Argent, a pale between endorses gules
17. Sable, three bendlets enhanced argent
18. Argent, chevron or between three crosses couped sable, on an
escutcheon of pretense gules, two quarterfoils argent
19. Gules, a flasque argent
20. Azure, fleur-de-lis argent (mark of sixth son on British arms)
21. Or, a fusil purpure
22. Azure, a gyron argent
23. Or, a chief indented gules
24. Vert, three inescutcheons argent
25. Argent, a bend invected gules between two hurts
26. Lozengy or and gules
27. Argent, a martlet gules (an imaginary bird without legs)
28. Argent, a pallet gules
29. Parted per pale and per chevron counter-changed, gules and or
30. Parted per pale and per bend counter-changed, argent and vert
31. Parted per fess engrailed, vert and argent
32. Parted per pale, azure and argent
33. Vert, a quarter foil
34. Argent, three trefoils gules, one over two
35. Argent, a stag proper, tripping
39. Azure, a rustre argent