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Ordinary (heraldry) - Definition and Overview |
| Related Words: Badge, Badges, Baton, Blazonry, Brassard, Button, Chain, Circumstance, Cockade, Collar, Cross, Decoration, Dress, Eagle, Emblems, Fasces, Figurehead, Insignia |
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In heraldry, an ordinary is a simple geometrical figure on the arms, wider than a line or division of the field.
Examples include:
- Pale: a vertical bar
- Pallets: more than one pale
- Fess: horizontal bar in the centre
- Chief: horizontal bar at the top
- Bend: diagonal bar \
- Bendlets: more than one bend
- Cross: vertical/horizontal cross +
- Saltire: diagonal cross ×
- Chevron: upward pointing <math>\wedge<math>
- Chevronels: more than one chevron
- Pile: downward pointing triangle
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