in full aspect

Mexico - Arms : ar. upon a rock, issuant from the sea in base, the nopal or tuna plant, thereon an eagle in full aspect, wings expanded, the head towards the dexter, holding in the beak a snake or serpent bowed embowed, all ppr[…]

1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica: Or, Complete Dictionary of Heraldry, page 1:

Perch / Or an eagle in full aspect gu. standing on a perch issuing out of the sinister side arg.

1874, John Woody Papworth, An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, page 312:


en arrière

Argent, a Bend between six Bees en Arrière Sable : BEESTON.

1790, Anthony Wood, The history and antiquities of the colleges and halls in the university of Oxford, page 256:

[…] a chevron between two boars ' heads erased in chief and a bee volant en arrière in base all counterchanged.

1902, Joseph Foster, Some Feudal Coats of Arms and Others, page 225:

The arms of Bassano (really of foreign origin and not an English coat) are : “ Per chevron vert and argent, in chief three silkworm flies palewise en arrière, and in base a mulberry branch all counterchanged.

1925, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, A Complete Guide to Heraldry, page 261:

(heraldry, chiefly of an insect) With its back to the viewer.


coupy

William MEINARD, Lord MEINARD, Argent, a Cheveron Azure, between three sinister Hands erected coupy, at the Wrest Gules. This Family was ancient in England; the Heads of which served under Prince Edward, called the Black Prince[…]

1722, Alexander Nisbet, A System of Heraldry Speculative and Practical, page 269:

[...] hee may bee Distinguished from the vulgar sort of people and thereupon haue assigned unto him this Coate and Creast ensewing, vidzt Argent three Torteuxes and a cheife Gules and for his Creast a horse head Coupy Argent mained[…]

1925, Willoughby Aston Littledale, A Collection of Miscellaneous Grants, Crests, Confirmations, Augmentations and Exemplifications of Arms in the Mss. Preserved in the British Museum, Ashmolean Library, Queen's College, Oxford, and Elsewhere, page 15:

(heraldry, obsolete) Alternative form of coupé i.e. couped.


pairle

Azure, a Pairle Or.

1722, Alexander Nisbet, A System of Heraldry Speculative and Practical, page 195:

As to its position, examples of its use in bend, in saltire, and even in pairle, are to be found without difficulty. It may be well to remark that the position of charges in pairle is a very common one in German heraldry,[…]

1886, Walford Dakin Selby, The Genealogist, page 228:

The trail entered Covington from the northeast and went out through Conecuh. In general, Conecuh, Butler, and Covington Counties are at the three ends of a Y (pairle). By notching the pairle the old trail is exactly indicated.

1928, United States. National Guard Bureau, Official National Guard Register, page 58:


appalmed

[…] The term is however quite needless, as every hand not blazoned as aversant, or dorsed, is supposed to be appalmed.

1847, Henry Gough, A Glossary of Terms Used in British Heraldry: With a Chronological Table, Illustrative of Its Rise and Progress, page 11:

[...] on a ffess Argent 3 dex : hands appalm'd G. / Crest, on a Wreath a Lion ramp. Or in his Mouth a Hand Gules (cf. Mylles, Visit. London 1568, Harl. Soc., Vol. I., p. 11).

1908, Thomas Benolt, The Four Visitations of Berkshire, page 180:

[...] the vertical staff surmounted by an appalmed hand bearing the motto, Fiducia concors, [...]

2007, Timothy Wilks, Prince Henry Revived: Image and Exemplarity in Early Modern England, Paul Holberton Publishing:


tricorporated

For quotations using this term, see Citations:tricorporated.


bicorporated

Vert, a bicorporated lion sejant guardant […]

1904, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, The Art of Heraldry: An Encyclopaedia of Armory, London : T.C.; & E.C. Jack, page 426:


Calvary cross

Calvary crosses (plural)
cross Calvary (alternative)
cross calvary (alternative)

Arms of Baldwin : Gules, on a chevron or between three Calvary crosses argent, as many slips of laurel fructed proper; with an inescocheon, Azure, within barrulets or, three escallops fessways erminois, in chief an etoile […] Crest, a squirrel or, sejant upon a hazel-branch fructed turned up behind his back, the dexter paw holding a slip of the same proper, the sinister paw resting upon a Calvary cross sable.

1864, London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archæological Society, page 57:

[...] in the Notitia Monastica it is a Calvary cross sable, standing on a basis of two steps, and fimbriated or. Or the device may have belonged to some guild or fraternity among the townsmen of Nottingham. Thoroton mentions one more[…]

1867, John Gough Nichols, The Herald and Genealogist, page 168:

The arms are argent, a Calvary cross gules. Is the name identical with our Brignal so common in the county of Durham, and which probably originates from Brignal near Rokeby?

(heraldry) A cross atop a platform of (typically three) stepped tiers.


papelonné

papelonny (alternative)
pappellony (alternative)
papellony (alternative)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:papelonné.

(heraldry) Divided into a pattern (counted as one of the heraldic furs) which resembles scales, such as are found on fish or on butterflies' wings, perhaps originally representing stylized feathers or diaper. (Compare escaloped, plumetty.)


escartelly

(heraldry) Having a single square perturbance in the middle (of a line).


per fess

per fess gules and argent; tierced per fess

(heraldry) (Partitioned) horizontally; (especially) partitioned horizontally into two halves (formally party per fess).

coupé

heraldry: partitioned horizontally: party per fess


per chevron

per chevron gules and argent; tierced per chevron; an escutcheon tierced per pale and per chevron

(heraldry) (Partitioned) along the bent line(s) of a chevron, (especially) into two areas (formally party per chevron).

(tierced, etc) en chevron

heraldry: partitioned along the bent line of a chevron


pall reversed

The Chinese running-hand form of the number six is 1, and this scarcely bears comparison with the mark in question, which looks almost exactly like an inverted pall or Y, each of whose three branches is formed of four circlets or dots, making twelve altogether.

It may be embroidered or edged with lace and a cross worked on its centre to distinguish it from the Mass corporal; or an inverted pall of the right size might conveniently be used if preferred.

1956, Edward Cyril Russell Lamburn, Ritual Notes:

When the two arms of the "Y" are on the hoist it may be called a simple pall, with the two arms on the fly a reversed pall, with the two arms on the top edge an upright pall and with the two arms on the bottom edge of the flag an inverted pall.

2008, A. P. Burgers, The South African flag book:

(heraldry) An ordinary that looks like an upside-down 'Y' (⅄).


per bend

per bend argent and gules; tierced per bend

Per bend and per pale or and arg. JOHNSON, 1730.
Per bend or and az. CRANE.
Per bend dancetty or and az. […]

1874, John Woody Papworth, An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, page 182:

(heraldry) (Partitioned) diagonally by a line going from the dexter chief (viewer's top left) along a 45 degree angle towards the sinister base, (especially) into two halves (formally party per bend).

tranché

heraldry: partitioned diagonally (\): party per bend


per bend sinister

per bend sinister argent and azure; tierced per bend sinister

(heraldry) (Partitioned) diagonally by a line going from the sinister chief (viewer's top right) towards the dexter base, (especially) into two halves (formally party per bend sinister).

taillé

heraldry: partitioned diagonally (/): party per bend sinister


variation of the field

en-noun

variation of the field (plural variations of the field)

(heraldry) Any of the ways (such as barry or chequy) in which a field or charge may be covered with a pattern, rather than a flat tincture or a simple division.


cross moline

(heraldry) A cross that has four equal-length arms with forked tips, so that it resembles a moline.


per chief

Party per chief, gules and or, are the Arms of Camoyse.

1845, Edward Smedley, Hugh James Rose, Henry John Rose, Encyclopaedia Metropolitana: Mixed sciences, page 602:

[...] which Anne bore parted per chief azure and vert, three martlets or, in the first a crescent az. for difference, but by her he had no issue.

1882, William Wheater, The history of the parishes of Sherburn and Cawood, page 175:

Per chief gules and sable, a lion rampant ermine (argent billetty sable). GOLDWELL,

1897, William Kirkpatrick Riland Bedford, The Blazon of Episcopacy: Being the Arms Borne by Or Attributed to the Archbishops and Bishops of England and Wales with an Ordinary of the Coats Described and of Other Episcopal Arms, page 173:

Cromwell of Tattershall : party per chief, gules and argent, a bend azure; which might also be blazoned as gules, a chief argent, and a bend azure (fig. 16). Heraldic writers give the fillet as a diminutive of the chief.

1903, Day Otis Kellogg, Thomas Spencer Baynes, The Encyclopædia Britannica: A-ZYM, page 694:

Shield—Quarterly first and fourth, quarterly Gules and Argent, in the first quarter a mullet Argent (De Vere); second, Gules, a bend between six cross crosslets fitchée Argent (Howard); third, per chief Gules and Argent[…]

1920, Grosvenor Thomas, Maurice Drake, The Costessey Collection of Stained Glass: Formerly in the Possession of George William Jerningham, 8th Baron Stafford of Costessey in the County of Norfolk, page 19:

Per chief gules and azure, over all a lion rampant or Hastang Robert G. 162 QI . 123 .... L. 69 J. 133 E. 153 Per chief or and azure, over all a lion rampant gules Hastang Sutton Robert John FW. 176 HE . 162 L. 228 Per chief gules[…]

1984, Cecil R. Humphery-Smith, Anglo-Norman Armory Two: An Ordinary of Thirteenth-century Armorials:

rule of tincture
rule of tincture#English

(heraldry, now nonstandard) Partitioned into two parts by a horizontal line one-third of the way down the shield. A shield of this form is now normally viewed as one colour charged with a chief instead, although this may cause it to break the rule of tincture.


rule of tincture

(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".

tinkturregeln

heraldic rule of thumb: "no metal on metal, nor colour on colour"


countercombatant

counter-combatant (alternative)
counter-combattant (alternative)

Arms. G. 2 lions countercombatant O. quartering A. on a pale B. 3—A.

1790, Sir Egerton Brydges, The Topographer: Containing a Variety of Original Articles, Illustrative of the Local History and Antiquities of England, page 78:

Quarterly, 1st gu. on a chev. ar. a rose betw. two lions countercombatant of the first, for HEPBURN; 2nd, az. a ship or, her sails furled ar. within a double tressure flory counterflory of the second, as Duke of Orkney: 3rd[…]

1884, Bernard Burke, The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales: Comprising a Registry of Armorial Bearings from the Earliest to the Present Time, page 480:

(heraldry, of two animals) Facing each other (like combattant animals), especially in on either side of a charge.


astral crown

(heraldry) A gold crown surmounted with eight low points. The centrals and laterals points are topped with a star, with an unspecified number of points, between two wings. It is mounted atop the shields of coats of arms of units belonging to some air forces or the personal arms of its distinguished commanders.


antique crown

So called from being one of the oldest heraldic crown insignia.

The quartered arms of the See were usually arranged in an oval escucheon I. Gules, […] an eagle sable, crowned with an antique crown and supported by a trangle held in its claws, is brochant over the stem of the tree.

1894, John Woodward, A Treatise on Ecclesiastical Heraldry, page 298:


eastern crown

So called because of its origin in the Eastern Mediterranean.

(heraldry) A gold heraldic crown surmounted with a variable number of sharp spikes.


celestial crown

celestial crown (plural celestial crowns)

(heraldry) A modified eastern crown consisting of a gold fence usually adorned with points or rays topped with stars of the same metal.


embelif

From Middle English embelif (“oblique (adj.); obliquely (adv.)”) (compare Middle English embelink), from Old French en belif / beslif, related to Latin ob-līquus.

inh

Robert Dene of Sussex (14th century) bore "Gules a quarter azure 'embelif,' or aslant, and thereon a sleeved arm and hand of silver."

1910, The Encyclopaedia Britannica: Har to Ita, page 320:

The trick […] might be meant for a lion passant or for one rampant embelif […]

2009, Thomas Daniel Tremlett, Hugh Stanford London, Rolls of Arms, Henry III., page 132:


kleestengel

From older German Kleestengel (since 1996 now spelled Kleestängel).

Gules an eagle argent with "Kleestengel" and a crescent sable on its breast, armed and membered or

1987, Madeline Harrison Caviness, Stained Glass Before 1700 in American Collections: Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern Seaboard States:

Argent, an eagle or [for gules], with 'Kleestengel' or (Margrave of Brandenburg) (ibid., p. 12, pl. 12). Technique : The Überlingen heraldic window is a technical masterpiece. The lion, mantling and escutcheon were made with red flashed glass[…]

2001, Virginia Chieffo Raguin, Helen Jackson Zakin, Elizabeth Carson Pastan, Stained Glass Before 1700 in the Collections of the Midwest States: Michigan, Ohio:

A gold helmet affronty ensigned by a gold coronet, from which arises an eagle displayed sable crowned or, on each wing a kleestengel or and having upon the breast the letters F R also or. Mantling : Sable doubled argent.

2005, Sarah Brown, A History of the Stained Glass of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, St George's Chapel, page 188:

(heraldry, rare) One of a pair of ornaments extending from the chest outward along the wing-bone of a bird, terminating in a trefoil, chiefly in German heraldry.


treflée

Borrowed from French tréflé(e). See trefoil. Doublet of trifoliate.

Gaddi: Azure, a cross treflée or.

1901, Howel Wills, Florentine Heraldry: A Supplement to the Guide-books, page 118:

3. ALBERT EDWARD PRINCE OF WALES. The Royal arms as above, differenced with a label of three points argent, over all, barry of ten or and sable a bend treflée vert (Saxony).

1921, Edward Alfred Webb, The Records of St. Bartholomew's Priory and of the Church and Parish of St. Bartholomew's the Great: West Smithfield, page 478:

Vert, a cross treflée (or flory) argent between four open crowns or, in a canton of the second the Blessed Virgin holding the Holy Child proper. (Woodward, Ecclesiastical Heraldry.


surgerant

Giffith Goch Lord of Rhos and Rhyvoning, Lineally Descended from Marchudd in the eleventh degree, he bore Or a Griffen Surgerant or Rising Gules […]

1716, John Davies, A display of herauldry, of … North Wales, page 51:

Griffin. Gul. 1 surgerant or.—Llawdder. […]

1851, Archaeologia Cambrensis: the journal of the Cambrian Archaeological Association. 1851, page 76:

Or, a falcon surgerant azure, for Tegerin ab Carwed, […]

1887, Jacob Youde William Lloyd, The History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher, and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fadog: And the Ancient Lords of Arwystli, Cedewen, and Meirionydd, page 194:


cadet branch

(history, heraldry) A house (dynasty) descended from one of the patriarch's younger sons.


cadet house

(history, heraldry) Synonym of cadet branch (“house (dynasty) descended from one of the patriarch's younger sons”)


naval crown

(heraldry) A naval emblem made up of a circlet with the sails and sterns of ships alternating on top.


jessant-de-lis

(heraldry) A fleur-de-lis issuing out of any object.


barby

Seemingly from French barbé, barbée, but in French (language and heraldry) that term means something else ("bearded or wattled").

(heraldry, rare) Barbed, like the ends of an arrow cross.


in complement

The sixth Bishop of Ely had very curious arms, for he bore both sun and moon on his shield, the sun "in his splendour" and the moon "in her complement".

1912, Allen Phoebe, Peeps at Heraldry, page 33:

(heraldry, of a moon) Full and fully illuminated.


stainand

(heraldry, uncommon) Staining (used, infrequently, to describe the heraldic stains like tenné).


enchaussure

(heraldry, rare) The overlay which makes a shield chaussé.


golpy

Blazon: A plate golpy charged with a saltire Azure, overall a barrel Or charged with a lion’s head erased Gules, the whole ensigned by a coronet of mayflowers and thistles Or.

2014, Grant of a Badge for use by the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Excellence in Nova Scotian Wines https://www.gg.ca/en/heraldry/public-register/project/2644

(heraldry) Semé (strewn) with golpes (roundels purpure).


raise to the ermine

en-verb

raise to the ermine (third-person singular simple present raises to the ermine, present participle raising to the ermine, simple past and past participle raised to the ermine)

raises to the ermine (present singular third-person)
raising to the ermine (participle present)
raised to the ermine (participle past)
raised to the ermine (past)

Ermine robes were traditionally worn by members of the House of the Lords, and by high-ranking judges in the English courts.

Coordinate term: raise to the purple

(heraldry) Of a person, to increase in status by adding an ermine fur pattern to a coat of arms.


per pall

44. Per pall, sable, argent and gules. 45. Per pall reversed, or, argent and azure. 46. Argent, a pall gules.

1896, Franz Sales Meyer, A Handbook of Ornament, with 300 Plates Containing about 3000 Illustrations of the Elements, and the Application of Decoration to Objects, page 508:

[…] is : Per pall (or per pairle), reversed; or, sable and azure; in dexter chief an azure money bag tied and lined gules, proper ; in sinister chief a pair of balances palewise of the fourth; in base a Phoenician galley with sails[…]

Per pall azure, argent and gules, a pall between in chief a sun in splendour or, on the dexter side upon a mount issuing from base an oak-tree proper, and on the sinister side three mullets of six points one and two of the fourth[…]

1929, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour:

(heraldry, uncommon) (Partitioned) into three triangular sections, one pointing down from the top of the shield and the others occupying the remainder of the left and right halves of the shield, as if the shield is divided by a Y shape (formally party per pall or tierced per pall).


Red Rose of Lancaster

(heraldry, historical) A heraldic badge adopted by the royal House of Lancaster in the 14th century.