Michael’s Heraldry Tutorial
Glossary
Basics
Divisions
Ordinaries
Colors
Rule
of Tincture
Charges 1
Charges 2
- argent
- tincture; metal silver, white
- azure
- tincture; color blue
- barry
- division divided into ~6 horizontal bars of alternating tincture
- bend
- ordinary diagonal from right top
- bend sinister
- ordinary diagonal from left top. (Not a mark of illegitimacy.)
- bendy divided into ~6 diagonal from right top bars of alternating tincture
- division
- bendy-barry
- division an overlay of bendy and barry
- bendy-paly an overlay of bendy and paly
- division
- bendy sinister divided into ~6 diagonal from left top bars of alternating tincture
- division
- blazon
- noun a description in words of a heraldic device, from which
any heraldically knowldgeable illustrator can create a rendition reasonably
similar (and heraldically identical) to the original
- bordure
- division a border around the edge of the field
- charge
- noun A stylized representaiton of a real or imaginary thing
- checky
- division an overlay of barry and paly
- chevron
- ordinary
- chevronny
- division divided into ~6 chevron-shaped stripes of two alternating
tinctures
- chief
- division the top third of the field
- counter-ermine
- tincture; fur
- counter-potent
- tincture; fur
- counter-vair
- tincture; fur
- couped
- adjective cut off
- cross
- charge any of a large number of crosses
line of division divided into four sections of two alternating tinctures
- dancetty
- line of division
- device
- noun
- division
- noun
- dovetailed
- line of division
- embattled
- line of division
- engrailed
- line of division
- ermine
- tincture, fur Inspired by the ermine cloaks of royalty, Ermine
represents the black tails of mink-like animals sewn to the white fur
of their bodies. (
- erminois
- tincture, fur
- fess
- ordinary a horizontal bar across the middle of the field, generally
about 1/3 of the field's height
- field
- noun
- flaunch
- ordinary
- gules
- tincture, color green
- gusset
- ordinary
- gyronny
- division an overlay of quarterly and per saltire, resulting
in eight pie-shaped wedges of two alternating tinctures
- indented
- line of division
- invected
- line of division
- line of division
- noun
- lozengy
- division an overlay of bendy and bendy-sinister, resulting
in ~36 lozenge- or diamond-shaped ares of two alternating tinctures
- nebuly
- line of division "cloudy"
- or
- tincture, metal gold, yellow
- ordinary
- noun
- orle
- ordinary
- pale
- ordinary
- pall
- ordinary
- paly
- division
- pean
- tincture, fur
- pile
- ordinary
- potent
- tincture, fur
- proper
- tincture
- purpure
- tincture, color
- quarterly
- division
- raguly
- line of division
- sable
- tincture, color
- saltire
- ordinary
- tincture
- noun
- vert
- tincture, color
- vair
- tincture, fur
- voided
- adjective
- wavy
- line of division
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