A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, Volume 1 |
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allusive ancient appears argent argent and azure argent and gules armes parlantes Azure Barons Barry of six Bavaria bear bend bend-sinister bendlets bendways Bendy bezants blazon Bookseller bordure bore borne British Armory canting arms canting coat canton century chequy chevron chevron between three chief colour Comtes counter-changed Counts cross crowned d'argent d'Azur d'or dexter Ducs Dukes eagle displayed Earls Edinburgh England English engrailed ermine escucheon examples fess field Flanders fleurs-de-lis France French blazon French family frequently fretty gueules gules Gyronny head heraldic charge Heraldry Holland Holy Roman Empire indented instances issuant King lines lion rampant Lords lozenge Marquises metal mount in base naiant Ordinary origin orle pairle pale argent paleways Paly passant Plate points Princes proper quartered represented Rolls of Arms roundles Royal sable saltire Scotland Scottish seal semé shield sinister sometimes Spain Tierced tincture tressure trois vair vert Wappenbuch Wappenrolle von Zürich wavy Zürich