"rule of tincture" meaning in English

See rule of tincture in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|?}} rule of tincture
  1. (heraldry) A design philosophy, or rule of thumb, found in some heraldic traditions, that "metal should not be put on metal, nor colour on colour". Wikipedia link: Gilbert Denys Categories (topical): Heraldry Translations (heraldic rule of thumb: "no metal on metal, nor colour on colour"): tinkturregeln [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-rule_of_tincture-en-noun-UE9ju1io Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: government, heraldry, hobbies, lifestyle, monarchy, nobility, politics

Download JSON data for rule of tincture meaning in English (1.3kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "?"
      },
      "expansion": "rule of tincture",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Heraldry",
          "orig": "en:Heraldry",
          "parents": [
            "History",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A design philosophy, or rule of thumb, found in some heraldic traditions, that \"metal should not be put on metal, nor colour on colour\"."
      ],
      "id": "en-rule_of_tincture-en-noun-UE9ju1io",
      "links": [
        [
          "heraldry",
          "heraldry"
        ],
        [
          "rule of thumb",
          "rule of thumb"
        ],
        [
          "metal",
          "metal"
        ],
        [
          "colour",
          "colour"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(heraldry) A design philosophy, or rule of thumb, found in some heraldic traditions, that \"metal should not be put on metal, nor colour on colour\"."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "heraldry",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "monarchy",
        "nobility",
        "politics"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "heraldic rule of thumb: \"no metal on metal, nor colour on colour\"",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "tinkturregeln"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Gilbert Denys"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "rule of tincture"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "?"
      },
      "expansion": "rule of tincture",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns with unknown or uncertain plurals",
        "en:Heraldry"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A design philosophy, or rule of thumb, found in some heraldic traditions, that \"metal should not be put on metal, nor colour on colour\"."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "heraldry",
          "heraldry"
        ],
        [
          "rule of thumb",
          "rule of thumb"
        ],
        [
          "metal",
          "metal"
        ],
        [
          "colour",
          "colour"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(heraldry) A design philosophy, or rule of thumb, found in some heraldic traditions, that \"metal should not be put on metal, nor colour on colour\"."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "heraldry",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "monarchy",
        "nobility",
        "politics"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Gilbert Denys"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "heraldic rule of thumb: \"no metal on metal, nor colour on colour\"",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "tinkturregeln"
    }
  ],
  "word": "rule of tincture"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.