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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


Diminuatives

  • bars
    bars

  • bars gemel
    bars gemel

  • bendlets
    bendlets

  • bendlets enhanced
    bendlets enhanced

  • base
    base

  • chevronels
    chevronels

  • chevronels braced
    chevronels braced

  • dexter tierce
    dexter tierce

  • pallets
    pallets

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

  • bars dovetailed
    two bars dovetailed

  • bars embattled
    two bars embattled

  • bars engrailed
    two bars engrailed

  • bars invecked
    two bars invecked

  • bars raguly
    two bars raguly

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Geometric Divisions of the Field

  • barry gules
    barry, per chevron conterchanged

  • barry bendy
    barry-bendy

  • paly-bendy
    paly-bendy

  • chequy
    chequy

  • fusilly
    fusilly

  • gyronny
    gyronny of six

  • gyronny
    gyronny of eight

  • gyronny
    gyronny of twelve

  • gyronny
    gyronny of sixteen

  • lozengy
    lozengy

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Geometric Objects on the Field

  • fusil
    fusil

  • lozenge
    lozenge

  • mascle
    mascle

  • rustre
    rustre

  • fret
    fret

  • quarter
    quarter

  • canton
    canton

  • chief point
    chief point

  • gyron
    gyron or esquire

  • fretty
    fretty

  • billet
    billet

  • escutcheon
    escutcheon

  • flaunches
    flaunches

  • shakefork
    shakefork

  • pallium
    ecclesiastical pallium

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