Ordinaries

Symbols included upon this page are diminutives, geometric divisions of the field, and geometric objects on the field.

• Page 1: pale, fess, cross, and bordure

• Page 2: chief, bend, bend sinister and saltire

• Page 3: chevron and pile; special variations of the standard ordinaries

• Page 4: diminutives (see also Diminutives of Partitions); geometric divisions of the field; geometric objects on the field

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Diminuatives

• 
  bars

• 
  bars gemel

• 
  bendlets

• 
  bendlets enhanced

• 
  base

• 
  chevronels

• 
  chevronels braced

• 
  dexter tierce

• 
  pallets

As with any ordinary, the edges of bars, palets, chevronels, etc. may be straight or otherwise:

• 
  two bars dovetailed

• 
  two bars embattled

• 
  two bars engrailed

• 
  two bars invecked

• 
  two bars raguly

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Geometric Divisions of the Field

• 
  barry, per chevron conterchanged

• 
  barry-bendy

• 
  paly-bendy

• 
  chequy

• 
  fusilly

• 
  gyronny of six

• 
  gyronny of eight

• 
  gyronny of twelve

• 
  gyronny of sixteen

• 
  lozengy

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Geometric Objects on the Field

• 
  fusil

• 
  lozenge

• 
  mascle

• 
  rustre

• 
  fret

• 
  quarter

• 
  canton

• 
  chief point

• 
  gyron or esquire

• 
  fretty

• 
  billet

• 
  escutcheon

• 
  flaunches

• 
  shakefork

• 
  ecclesiastical pallium

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