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Search for: "INVEXED. Arched or enarched, and when both sides of an ordinary are answerably bowed, it is generally termed archée, flected, or flecked, but if only on one side, and bowed inward, it is called invexed, concaved, champained, or championed; and when the bending is outwards, it is then termed shapourned and convexed. See Plate VI fig. 6, of Lines."
The OED says "In Fr. heraldry the word is used (I) of an axe or other weapon, having the handle of a certain tincture different from that of the blade; (2) of the field, denoting what Eng. heralds call barry-pily. Neither of these senses in recognized in England, though the former appears in some recent Eng. Dicts. The Eng. senses given below are of doubtful authenticity; sense 2 is perh. founded on the erroneous derivation from manche, fem., sleeve. / 1. Of the field: per fesse dancetté of two points 1586 Ferne, Blaz. Gentrie I. 199: He beareth Emaunche Arg. and Gewles."
étincellé (compare Old Frenchestencele(“spark”), and the adjective fr:étincelant which modifies a charge or e.g. a star to indicate it's spark(l)ing) I can't find used (rather than mentioned) in that spelling (which makes sense, the French verb has a single l: étinceler). I also can't find any of the following other spellings searching + "heraldry" : étincellé, etincellé, étincellée, etincellé, étincellee, etincellee, etincelly, etincely, etincelée, etincelee, etincely, etencely, etencelly, etencelle, etencellee, etenzellee, etenzelle, etenzele, éstincellé, éstincellée, éstincelé, éstincelée, estincely, estincelly.
According to Gerard J. Brault, Early Blazon: Heraldic Terminology in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries with Special Reference to Arthurian Heraldry (1997), page 106, the étincellé, the angemme or angevine (or enguegine, angeignie, anguegnie, anguegine, engeignie), and the rais or raie de soleil, were indistinct (depictions "apt to vary" and overlap), and at least the latter two (not clear if also the étincellé) were peculiar to Normandy and little known even elsewhere in France, which might be why it's hard to find English examples, but the spelling of heraldic words varies enough (e.g. geuls) that I'm concerned I'm missing something.
I can find one English use of étincelé, and one use in a French phrase embedded in English, a use(ish) occurence of "estenzele" and "etincele", and an occurence of estenzele: Citations:étincelé. In French, several spellings can be found: Talk:étincelé.
Mentioned in other dictionaries, but not sufficiently attested, is "disjointed" in reference to a lion having its limbs and head but not tail separated; it also applies to chevrons interrupted.
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étincellé: moved to étincelé (which is citeable if people are counting variant spellings together, meh...)
inclave: 2 cites: uncommon in English heraldry, but "frequently found in foreign armory": also called inclaved, lambeauxed, or labelled
1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 213:
... and in Edward the Second's reign we find the double-headed eagle, and in Edward the Third's reign we get the term espanie, signifying displayed, or spread out; (conf. modern fr. épandre). The mention, too, of the eagles[…]
2018 August 28, Jonathan Malone, Roman Night, Jonathan Malone, page 362:
SEBASTIAN HAD ALREADY paraded down the Clivus Capitolinus, the pearl-gray Arabians prancing before the Imperial chariot, which he was driving, a white D-shaped chariot with the heraldry of a gold eagle displayed and épandre mounted on[…]
2018 August 17, Jonathan Malone, Chemtrail, Jonathan Malone:
The American eagle of this heraldry was Displayed and Épandre, its raptorial beak turned in profile, its left eye vertically slitted. From this distance, Colonel House could not see the details, but he was familiar with them.
1693, Richard Blome, The Art of Heraldry. In two parts ... The second edition. With plates, page 110:
This is the state of the Moon in her Wain, the Horns must always be turned towards the left hand of the Escocheon, as that in her Complement is towards the [...] a Moon in her detriment or Eclipse Sable[…]
1684, Richard Blome, An Essay to Heraldry, in two parts, page 111:
Argent, a Moon in her detriment or Eclipse Sable. The Moon is eclipsed always in her full State, and is so occasioned by the interposition of the Earth betwixt her and the Sun. Lucy. 19. Azure, a Crescent Argent, borg by Jacob[…]
1830, Thomas Robson, The British Herald; Or, Cabinet of Armorial Bearings of the Nobility & Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, from the Earliest to the Present Time: With a Complete Glossary of Heraldic Terms: to which is Prefixed a History of Heraldry, Collected and Arranged ..., page 3:
HURE, a French term for the head of a wild boar, bear, […]
English tierced per pall, gu., ar. & sa. is a partition, like Fr. tiercé en pairle de gu., d'ar. et de sa....
& per pall rev., Fr. tiercé en pairle r., can also (Fr./Sp.) be: sa., a mantel per pale gu. & ar.
in Engl. this is per fess, chief per pale, az., sa. & ar., but in Fr. coupé mi-parti d'az., sa. et ar.
& per fess, base per pale, ar., az. & sa. is in Fr. coupé mi-parti en pointe d'ar., d'az. et de sa.
bonus examples of colourful shields: per bend sinister orange and azure (Bellefontaine)
and per chevron purpure and or (Lacy of Suffolk)
Chapé and chaussé are also to be distinguished from piles:
argent a pile (French: pile) gules
argent a pile reversed (French: pointe) gules
argent a pile throughout gules
argent a pile reversed throughout gules
(example of party per pile ployé? Manta, Cundinamarca)
Similarly,
a gyron (Fr.: giron) can be borne like an ordinary: argent, a gyron gules
or as a partition: gyronny of eight, argent and gules
hence e.g. gyrony of eight, gules and sable (Coblegh family of Brightley)
chequy of nine / quarterly of nine (French: équipollé
chequy gules and argent (French: échiqueté)
lozengy
Furthermore, some lines that can be drawn upon a shield can delineate either an ordinary or a partition:
argent, a fess (French: fasce) gules involves an ordinary, but...
tierced per fess, gu., ar. & sa. is a partition
argent, a pale (French: pal) gules, but...
...tierced per pale (French: tiercé en pal), gules, argent and sable
argent, a bend (French: bande) gules
tierced per bend (French: tiercé en bande), gules, argent and sable
Compare:
per fess, vert & purp. (De Maas-en Diezepolders)
az., fillet gu. (Galicia)
gules, a pale sable (Amsterdam)
gules, a bend azure (Gilbert Denys' 1300s arms)
Similarly,
argent, a bend sinister (French: barre) gules
tierced per bend sinister (French: tiercé en barre), gu., ar. & sa.
argent, a chevron gules
tierced per chevron (Fr.: tiercé en chevron), gu., ar. & sa.
argent, a chevron reversed / inverted gules
tierced per chevron reversed, gules, argent and sable
Aside from the fess, pale, bend, and chevron, the other major ordinaries (which are not divisions of the field) are:
argent, a cross (French: croix) gules
argent, a saltire (French: sautoir) gules
argent, a pall (French: pairle) ''gules
argent, a pall reversed / inverted gules
Others include:
argent, a champagne / terrace gules (Fr.: champagne)
argent, a side / tierce gules (French: flanc dextre)
argent, a side sinister gules (French: flanc senestre)
argent, a shakefork gules (French: pairle alaisé et aiguisé)
argent, flaunches gules
argent, a gore gules
argent, a gore sinister gules
gusset(s): see notes below
Early English writer Gerard Legh (Accidens of Armory, 1576), and John Guillim (Display of Heraldrie, 1611) citing Legh, say a gusset is a dishonor resembling a straight-edged gore, and blazon the image above gules, two gussets argent. Unsurprisingly, it does not seem to have been used in medieval English heraldry. (Mistholme says it's found in the arms of "Cunningham, 1610", but Cunningham bears a shakefork: the 1638 printing of Guillim's work says "Argent, 2. Gussets, Sanguine. Abating Such a Coat as this I finde borne by the name of Coningham, saving that the Field is Sable, and the Gussets Argent, and therefore not to be taken to be of this kinde, according to the rule touching the Delfe", but this may be an error.) Early French heraldic writer Hierome de Bara (Blason des armoiries, 1581) has an uncolored image of this shape blazoned d'or à deux goussets d'azur, suggesting he also considered the two side pieces the gussets; later editions bizarrely colour the two sides gold and the one central Y shape blue but leave the caption unchanged.
In German heraldry (e.g. Siebmacher), the central Y shape is a Deichselstück / Gabelstück, an alteration of a Deichsel (seen with unfilled top in e.g. the arms of Spraitbach, and with a conjoined pall (Pfahldeichsel) in the arms of Brücktal, formerly Brück). Much modern French heraldry also blazons the above image d'argent au gousset de gueules, with the g(o)usset being the central red pall-like mark.
Especially in continental Europe, there are ordinaries resembling or resulting from combinations of the preceding:
argent, a chief-pale gules (French: chef-pal), a single charge, in de Bara and the 1415 Concilium zu Constenz
(French: fasce-pal)
(French: chef-bande)
(French: chef-barre)
(French: chef-chevron)
(French: chevron-pal)
argent, a pale and pall conjoined gules (German: Pfahldeichsel)
argent, a pale and pall reversed conjoined gules (German: Pfahlgöp(p)el)
ar., chief & pall rev. conj. gu. (Fr.: chef réuni avec pairle renv., G.: Schildhauptgöpel)
a gusset rev. (Fr.: gousset renv., Ger.: Göp(p)elstück) : but see gusset!
Diminutives:
(argent, a fess gules)
argent, a bar gules
argent, a closet / barrulet gules
argent, a bar couped / humet gules'
(argent, a chief gules)
argent, a fillet gules (French: divise)
pale
pallet
argent, a bordure gules
argent, an orle gules
"gules, inescutcheon argent within a bordure argent" (???)
(argent, a cross gules, in the canton a) goutte de sang
argent, a hamade (of three bars couped / humets) gules
argent, a quarter gules
argent, a canton gules
argent, a label (of three points) gules
bordure
bordure
fess
fess
pale
pale
pale
pale
The arms of Hungary have, since the 13th century, placed a green trimount on a red field.
The 13th-century arms of the king of Jerusalem have one or more gold crosses on silver (or sometimes vice versa).
The arms of Samogitia, from the 14th century, place a black bear on a red field.
The arms of Albania have, since the 15h century, placed a black double-headed eagle on a red field.
quarterly with an inescutcheon (here the arms of Beynost)
this can get arbitrarily complex, e.g. the arms of Nassau-Oranien-Fulda
diminutives in decreasing size:
fess, bar, (closet,) barrulet
pale, pallet, (endorse)
bend, bendlet, (riband)
" the orle's diminutive is the tressure"
(Can we date this quote?), Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington), The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana ., page 179:
Of these only six have diminutives, which are called as follows : That of the chief is a fillet; the pale has a pallet and endorse; the bend, a bendlet, cost, and riband; the bend sinister has the scarp and bâton; the bar, the closet and barulet; the chevron, a chevronel and couple-close. See Plate I. The chief is an ordinary [...] Its diminutive is a fillet, the content of which is not to exceed one-fourth of the chief, and stands in the lowest part thereof. This ordinary is subject to be charged with variety of figures; and may be indented, wavy, nebule, &c. The pale is [...] Its diminutives are, the pallet, which is half of the pale; and the endorse, which is the fourth part of a pale. This ordinary and the pallet may receive any charge, but the endorse should not be charged. [...]
1854, William Sloane Evans, A grammar of British heraldry, page 88:
THE PALLET, (which is half the Pale,) is never charged with any thing of whatsoever nature. THE ENDORSE, is another diminutive of the Pale. It has been stated that it contains one half of the Pallet, and consequently one fourth part of the field. [...] This is the opinion of many Authors; but Legh and Ferne affirm that the Pallet may not be divided into two parts, but into four, and that the Endorse is in content one fourth part of the Pallet, or one eighth of the Pale. Again: the Endorse (according to Leigh,) is never used, except when a Pale is between two of them. But Ferne says "that an Endorse may very well be borne in any Coat Armour between Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Fowls, &c." [... ...] The Bend has been said by many authors to have four diminutives; viz.: The Bendlet, (half the Bend,) - The Garter, (half the Bendlet,) — The Cost, (half the Garter,) — and the Riband, (half the Cost). But Gwillim makes no mention of the Bendlet, describing the Garter as half the Bend, the Cost as half the Garter, &c. [...] I am inclined to believe that this is the case, and thart the terms Bendlet and Garter as assigned to the SAME diminutive of the Bend.
(heraldry,rare)Vert(green), in the postmedieval practice of blazoning the tinctures of certain sovereigns' (especially British monarchs') coats as planets.
1693, Richard Blome, The Art of Heraldry, in two parts ... second edition ..., pages 76-77:
12. Venus, a Staff in Pale Sol, and thereupon a Cross Pattee, Luna surmounted off a Pall of the last, charged with 4. like Crosses fitched Saturn, edged and stringed as the second. This Coat belongs to the Archiepiscopal See of Canterbury, to whose place it appertains to Crown and Inaugurate the Kings of England.
1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 464:
the planet Venus occurs in the crest of CHAMBERS, but has not been observed in any coats of arms. Blazoning by the name of Planets was invented by certain fanciful heralds in the seventeeth century, and the names employed will be found under Tinctures.
Gerard Legh, The Accedens of Armory. With an address to the Reader by R. Argoll, age 185: the nine sundry colours. As for Or, Ranuncula: for Argent the Iesemin: for Geules the Rose: for Azure, Periwinke: for Sable, Dwale: for Verte, v. leaued grasse: for Purpure, Buglasse: for Tenne Popy: for Sanguine the stock gilly flower, which colours are contained
1804, Alexander Nisbet, A system of heraldry, speculative and practical: with the true art of Blazon ... Illustrated with suitable examples of armorial figures, and achievements of the most considerable surnames and families in Scotland ..., page 379:
For example, if the cinquefoil be of tincture or, it should be called ranuncula; if of argent, jessamine; if gules, the rose; if azure, pirvincle; if sable, ducal; if vert, five leave grass; if purpure, bugloss; if tenny, puppie; and if sanguine, the stock-jelly-flower. If they be of any other colour besides these, and of the furrs , they are then to be blazoned cinquefoils.
1922, Henry Williamson, The Lone Swallows, page 18:
sunbeam had yet touched the buttercup, unblazoned was the shield of the meadow by gules of poppy, azure of cornflower, or argent of feverfew. Fragile were the greeneries of the hedge above the brooklet, sweet the primroses under[…]
1857, William Edward Flaherty, The Annals of England: An Epitome of English History, from Cotemporary Writers, the Rolls of Parliament, and Other Public Records, page 319:
Our author's heraldry is here at fault, as the bishop's seal shews that he bore, not a fer du moulin, but a cross cerclée, as above represented. Walter is usually laudatory in his mention of each person, but occasionally a slight[…]
1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica: Or, Complete Dictionary of Heraldry:
Cross-cercelée, or sarcelé, (French, croix cercelée or recercelée.) This cross is nearly like the cross moline, but has the points turned round, as in Plate XXXIII. fig. 36.
1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 176:
They are as follows, so far as printed works go (manuscript readings would add to the number) : - [...]. One writer speaks of cerclée being spelt cercelée[…]
1914, Bradley, James Augustus Henry Murray, Murray, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by The Philosophical Society, page 108:
1682, John Gibbon, Introductio Ad Latinam Blasoniam. An Essay to a More Correct Blason in Latine Than Formerly Hath Been Used. ..., page 141:
Gules, a Cross moline arg. The Author's French for this, is un cros recercilée; in which he hath been so fortunate as to have Trophée d'Armes (a modern Author) consent with him. In English he calls it a Cross reversed, which Leigh terms Sarcelé, and most French Authors Anchrée.
1904, The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary, ed. by W.D. Whitney, page 5341:
Sarceled, sarcelled (sär'seld), a. [< sarcel + -ed2.] In her., cut through the middle: especially noting a beast or bird represented as so divided, and used as a bearing, the halves placed saltierwise or in some other way.
1869, Frederick James Furnivall, Queene Elizabethes Achademy (by Sir Humphrey Gilbert).: A Booke of Percedence. The Ordering of a Funerall, &c. Varying Versions of The Good Wife, The Wise Man, &c, page 120:
Sarsile, 99/141 sarceled, i.e. cut ? through the middle. A cross cercelée is a cross which, opening at the end, turns round both ways, like a ram's horn. - Bailey.
1869, Humphrey Gilbert, Queene Elizabethes Achademy: A Booke of Precedence, the Ordering of a Funerall, Etc. Varying Versions of the Good Wife, the Wise Man, Etc. Maxims, Lydgate's Order of Fools, a Poem on Heraldry, Occleve on Lord's Men, Etc. Early English treatise and poems on education, precedence, and manners in olden time, page 99:
The first, hole croce; the tother, engrelit be; The third, awndi; the iiij, paty in feir; 1 the v. a crois; vj, crois flarait cleir; vij botand; viij crosolat; ix batone; x fovrmie; xj crois fichye; xij sarsile fere; demolyn xiij; xiiij regle; xv sucylye, sey. quhat maner of best or bird goith rond to sene, About the feld blase it heroune verray.[…]
1896, John Woodward, A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 484:
RESARCELÉ - Is said of a cross, or other Ordinary, which is coticed; also of a cross which has a bordure running round it at a little distance from the edge. The figures are practically identical. RETRAIT - is said of an Ordinary[…]
1860, Léon Vaïsse, Armorial national de France: recueil complet des armes des villes et provinces du territoire français..., page 67:
Cercelé ou recercelé, se dit d’une croix ancrée […]
1993, Jean Dufournet, Jean-Claude Aubailly, Et c'est la fin pour quoi sommes ensemble: hommage à Jean Dufournet : littérature, histoire et langue du Moyen Age, page 71:
Notonsaussi qu’on avait tendance, au Moyen Age, à ne pas toujours distinguer entre les lines of partition (fr. "trait"), donc entre une bordure recercelée (ou engrelée; "engrailed" en anglais) et une bordure endentée (fr. mod. "vivré"). En admettant donc la règle générale selon laquelle un émail alterne avec un métal (Or ou Argent),[…]
1830, Thomas Robson (engraver.), The British herald, or Cabinet of armorial bearings of the nobility & gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, page 14:
Cross masclée, at each point a plate; also called a cross masculy and pommettée; and by French heralds, a cross clechée, or clechée pommettée, and a cross thoulouze. See Pl. 5, fig. 21. Cross mascle, or of mascles, [ French[…]
1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry:
10 Cross, patriarchal, thrice crossed, potence, foot lambeaux. 11 Cross, masculy. 12 Cross, lambeauxed. 13 Cross of pruning hooks. 14 Cross, couped at the top and flurt. 15 Cross tau, ends convexed, grieced. 16 Cross, double triparted. 17 Cross, ferrated.
1725, James Coats, A New Dictionary of Heraldry, page 142:
FER DE FOURCHETTE, Croix a fer de fourchette, is a Cross having at each End a forked Iron, like that formerly us'd by Soldiers to rest their Muskets, wherein it differs from the Cross fourchée, the Ends whereof turn forked, whereas this has that sort of Fork fix'd upon the Square end.
1735, Francis Nichols, The British Compendium: Or, Rudiments of Honour ..., page 72:
Note, the Term fer de fourchette, is given to all Crosses and Saltires, whose Extremities end with a forked Iron, as the Example, like that formerly used by Soldiers to rest their Muskets.
1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica, Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry: Dictionary of Heraldry:
FER DE FOURCHETTE. See Cross de fourchette, which has at each extremity a forked iron, resembling that which was formerly used by[…]
1883, Amédée de Foras, Le blason: dictionnaire et remarques, page 136:
CROIX CERCELÉE ou RECERCELÉE. Est celle dont les branches, dans le genre de l’ancrée, se terminent en bouts se recourbant en cercles. Les Anglais l’appellent cross recercelee. L’évèque Antoine Bec, ( 224 ): portait ’’de gueules à croix cercelée d’hermines. (English Heraldry.)
"fretty and trellisé: A field fretty is composed of bendlets and bendlets-sinister or "scarps", interleaved over one another to give the impression of a trellis. Although almost invariably the bendlets and scarpes are of the same tincture, there is an example in which they are of two different metals. It is rare for the number of pieces of the fretty to be specified, though this is sometimes done in French blazon. The bendlets and bendlets sinister are very rarely anything other than straight, as in the arms of David Robert Wooten, in which they are raguly. Objects can be placed in the position of the bendlets and bendlets sinister and described as "fretty of," as in the arms of the Muine Bheag Town Commissioners: Party per fess or fretty of blackthorn branches leaved proper and ermine, a fess wavy azure. Square fretty is similarly composed of barrulets and pallets. Trellisé appears in the arms of Luc-Normand Tellier, where it consists of "bendlets, bendlets sinister and barrulets" interlaced. These are not, strictly speaking, variations of the field, since they are depicted as being on the field rather than in it."
1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica, Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry:
Bend urdée, or champaine, also termed a bend warriated on the outsides, and a bend crenelle points pointed, but then the projections should be set opposite each other. See Plate XV. fig. 19. Bend urdée champained, or championed[…]
1897, William Henry Abbott, Heraldry Illustrated: Being a Short Account of the Origin and History of Heraldry and an Explanation of Its Nature, with Practical Directions for Drawing and Painting Coats of Arms, to which is Added a Glossary of the Terms Used in the Science of Heraldry ..., page 124:
VARRIATED or WARRIATED -- cut in the form of vair. VELLOPED - a cock is said to be armed, crested and velloped, when his spurs, comb and wattles are borne of a different tincture from the body. VERGETTE (Fr.) — a palet or small[…]
1632, John Guillim (Rouge-Croix Poursuivant at Arms.), A Display of Heraldrie: manifesting a more easie accesse to the knowledge thereof than hath beene hitherto published by any, through the benefit of method, whereinto it is now reduced by the industry of J. Gwillim or rather of J. Barcham, with the additions of J. Guillim . With coloured illustrations. L.P., page 28:
[...] than onely vaire, or variated, for which word variated I haue obserued, that our English Blazoners vse verrey [...] Vaire : And if it be varied, or composed of Argent and Azure, then it is so called, and no Colours named : but[…]
1660, John Guillim, A Display of Heraldrie: Manifesting a More Easie Access to the Knowledge Therofthen Hath Hitherto Been Published by Any, Through the Benefit of Method; Wherein it is Now Reduced by the Study and Industry of John Guillim Late Pursuivant at Armes. .., page 25:
Doubling or Fur of this nature, than onely vaire, or variated, for which word variated I have observed [...] Vaire : And if it be varied, or composed of Argent and Azure, then it is so called, and no Colours named : but if it[…]
1896, London Society, page 585:
Vertically from the water rise walls of rock of variated colors, pearl grey, vermillion and golden brown, interspersed with bands of glittering quartz, until when seen from below the sky overhead appears like a thin streak of azure[…]
1845, Encyclopaedia, Encyclopædia metropolitana; or, Universal dictionary of knowledge, ed. by E. Smedley, Hugh J. Rose and Henry J. Rose. Plates, page 600:
Thus azure, a swan gules, would be false armoury. [...] When an ordinary has two sides, and is only variated on one , if that one be the upper side, the ordinary is said to be superingrailed, superinvected, &c.; but if it be the under, then it is said to be subingrailed, subinvected, &c. If the ordinary be generally curved, it is said to be arrondy, (arrondi, rounded, Fr.) or archy; if one side of the ordinary be curved inward, it is called invex, concave, or champain; when outward, chapourned, or convex.
1848, Archibald Barrington, A Familiar Introduction to Heraldry: Explaining in a Series of Lectures the Principles of the Science, and Shewing Its Application to the Study of History and Architecture, page 35:
In full aspect describes one with his head facing the onlooker. In trian aspect (a rare, later 16th and 17th century heraldry term) describes when the head is facing at a three-quarter view to give the appearance of depth, with the head cocked at an angle somewhere between profile and straight-on.
overture or close: when the wings are shown at the sides and close to the body (closed), always depicted statant
trussed - the term when depicting domestic or game birds with their wings closed - is not used of the eagle
espanie or épandre (expanded) : when the eagle is shown affronté (facing the viewer with the head turned to the dexter) and the wings are shown with the tips upward
1847, Henry Gough, A Glossary of Terms Used in British Heraldry: With a Chronological Table, Illustrative of Its Rise and Progress, page 31:
AULNED, or Bearded : words used when ears of corn are spoken of. AURÉ. See GUTTÉ d'or. AURIFLAMME. See ORIFLAMME. AWNED. See AULNED. AXE : (fig.1.) the common hatchet, which must not[…]
2009 June 1, Charles Norton Elvin, Elvin, Dictionary of Heraldry, Genealogical Publishing Com, →ISBN, page 11:
Augmented. Having Augmentations. Auk, A bird, an inhabitant of the arctic or northern seas. P. 34, f. 32. Aulned. The aulnes, or awnes, are the beards about the ears of barley, etc., generally termed bearded. Aure.
1908, Arthur Francis Pimbley, Pimbley's Dictionary of Heraldry: Together with an Illustrated Supplement, page 7:
Assaultant— (As-sa'ult-ant) Assailant. Applied to a predatory animal when represented on the escutcheon as if leaping / Aulned— (awn'd) Awned; bearded (Used of ears of corn.)
1910, Walter Arthur Copinger, Heraldry Simplified: An Easy Introduction to the Science and a Complete Body of Armory, Including the Arts of Blazoning and Marshalling, with Full Directions for the Making of Pedigrees and Information as to Records &c, page 327:
AULNED, the Aulnes or aunes are the beards about the ears of barley, & c., the term bearded is likewise used. AURE, the same as gutteé d'or, drops of gold. AURIFLAMME. See Oriflamme. AVANT MUR, signifies a wall attached to a[…]
1586, Sir John Ferne, The blazon of gentrie: deuided into two parts. The first named The glorie of generositie. The second, Lacyes nobilitie. Comprehending discourses of armes and of gentry. Wherein is treated of the beginning, parts, and degrees of gentlenesse, vvith her lawes: of the bearing, and blazon of cote-armors: of the lawes of armes, and of combats. Compiled by Iohn Ferne Gentleman, for the instruction of all gentlemen bearers of armes, whome and none other this worke concerneth, page 208:
Endented: Bebally. Lentally. Fessely. [...] for Bebally indented is, when as the coate-armor is indented of two diuers cullors, in the loength of the coate, that is to say, from the chiefe to the foote, as heere is the example, being nowadays blazed, partie per pale endented, Argent and Gewles, but the olde Heraldes would hauve said this: be beareth a Quadrat finall, viz. Endentely bebally, Arg. and G. The [...] Lentally, and that was, an indenting of the coate with two diuers cullors in the bend of the coate-armor [...] This we call now, partie per bend Endented, Or, and Gewles: they called it Endentely, Lentally, Or and G. [...] Armes which were called Fessely, were of seuerall sorts, whereof the first was called Fesse generall, and that is, the third of the Endentiles afore named: for, if the coate were Endented per fesse, [...] that is to say, fessely Endented, [...] The other two coate-armors Fessely, was Fessy Target (whereof we spake before) and Fessy Bagy.
2019 October 20, S.E. Brunson, The Book of Saint Albans: Part 3 - Heraldry, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 77:
... of heraldry ➢ The fifth quadrant is called endently in three different ways, that is to say bebally, lentally, and fesly. ➢ Bebally is when heraldry is called endently of two different colors running the length of the heraldry.
1829, Hugh Clark, Thomas Wormull, An Introduction to Heraldry: Containing the Origin and Use of Arms; Rules for Blazoning and Marshalling Coat Armours; the English and Scottish Regalia; a Dictionary of Heraldic Terms; Orders of Knighthood, Illustrated and Explained; Degrees of the Nobility and Gentry; Tables of Precedency, Etc., Titles and Duties of the Great Officers of State; and of the Officers of the College of Arms, Etc; and a New Chapter on Heraldry as in Conjunction with Architecture ..., page 95:
BEBALLY, an ancient term for party per pale. BEE-HIVE, Bees are the most wonderful and profitable insects yet known; they have three properties of the best kind of subjects; they keep close to their king; are very industrious[…]
1910, Walter Arthur Copinger, Heraldry Simplified: An Easy Introduction to the Science and a Complete Body of Armory, Including the Arts of Blazoning and Marshalling, with Full Directions for the Making of Pedigrees and Information as to Records &c, page 331:
BEBALLY, a term used by some old writers for party per pale. BECKIT, a bird resembling a Cornish chough. BECQUE, or Bequé. See Beaked. BEDDETH, a term to express where the roe takes up his lodging. BEFFROY, same as Vair.
1829, Hugh Clark (heraldic engraver.), An introduction to heraldry, by H.Clark, page 95:
BEBALLY, an ancient term for party per pale. BEE-HIVE. Bees are the most wonderful and profitable insects yet known; they have three properties of the best kind of subjects; they keep close to their king; are very industrious[…]
1735, Francis Nichols, The Irish Compendium of all the Nobility of Ireland vol. III of the British Compendium, second edition, page 70:
Argent, a Border Gules, diaper'd Or. The Word diaper'd signifies a Border fretted, as the Example, and charged between the Frets with Things both quick and dead, which ought to be express'd; this being charged with Crescents, Stars, Besants, and Caterfoils, and with Birds and Beasts, both whole and in Part.
2013 April 16, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, A Complete Guide to Heraldry - Illustrated by Nine Plates and Nearly 800 Other Designs, Read Books Ltd, →ISBN:
The terms we have adopted are as follows: For drops of gold, "gutté-d'or"; silver, "gutté-d'eau"; for gules, ... The term semé must not be confused with diapering, for whilst the objects with which a field is semé are an integral part[…]
1892, The Scottish Review, page 252:
From a very early period fields and ordinaries are frequently decorated with diapering, usually of the same[…]
Air Force Combat Units of World War II (DIANE Publishing, →ISBN, page 341:
Shield: Per bend gules and vert, a bend argent charged with a bendlet azure, between a wing of the third and a compass proper (bezant, with diapering green, bordered argent, thereover a four-pointed star compass, gules and azure).
1856, The Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for younger memebers of the english church, page 459:
They are most frequently borne embowed and naiant, but sometimes haurient, that is, erect and breathing: When feeding, they are termed vorant; allumé when their eyes are bright, and pamé when dying. They are either represente singly, or in twos or threes. When triple, they may be regarded as emblematic of the Holy Trinity[…]
1892, Hugh Clark, An Introduction to Heraldry, page 39:
Occasionally we meet with the terms allumé when their eyes are bright, and pamé when their mouths are open. When the kind of fish is not named, the ordinary shape is implied, similar to a dace or herring .
guivré ostensibly = gringolly; vivré also ostensibly = that, but really:
1885, Collection de documents inédits sur l'histoire de France, page 115:
sous un chef chargé d’un vivré , penché , timbré d’un heaume cimé d’une tête de biche ?, supporté par deux lions . ..dit le borgue Quittance de gages . — 18 janvier 1418 , n . st . ( Clair . , r . 140 , p . 2725. )[…]
2001, Michel Pastoureau, The Devil's Cloth: A History of Stripes and Striped Fabric, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 29:
are wavy , fascé - crénelé when they are notched , fascé - dentelé when they are cut into little teeth , fascé - vivré when the teeth are more exag- gerated . The system is infinite and the code always open - ended .