Ordinaries & Sub-Ordinaries
In addition to the divisions, objects are typically placed on the shield and coloured. The simplest of these are called the (honourable) ordinaries. These are the pale, the fess, the bend & bend sinister, the chevron & chevron reversed, the cross, the saltire, the pall and the pall reversed. The other partitions are regarded as sub-ordinaries.
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| Pale | Fess | Bend | Bend sinister | Chevron | Chevron reversed |
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Pallets Half the width of a pale |
Bars Half the height of a fess |
Bendlets Half the width of a bend |
Scarpes Half the width of a bend sinister |
Chevronels Half the width of a chevron |
Chevronels reversed Half the width of a chevron reversed |
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| Cross | Saltire | Pall | Pall reversed | Shakefork or Pall Couped | Gusset |
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| Chief | Base | Quarter | Canton |
Escarre (Quarter minus canton) |
Gyron |
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| Bordure | Orle | Tressure | Double Tressure | Escutcheon | Flaunches |
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| Two chevrons interlaced, one reversed | Two chevronelles in counterpoint | Three chevronelles interlaced | Chevron couched sinister | Chevron couched dexter | Fret |
Charges