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In heraldry, cablee refers to a cross in a coat-of-arms composed of two cable-ends.
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In heraldry, caboshed describe the showing of the full face, but nothing of the neck of the head of a beast in an armorial bearing.
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In heraldry, a cadency mark is a bearing indicating the position of the bearer as the older or younger son, or as a descendant of an older or younger son, differentiating between the head of the family and other members in the male line of the same family.
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In heraldry, a cadet is a junior member or branch of a family.
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In heraldry, a calvary cross is a long cross mounted upon three steps.
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In heraldry, campaned describes an armorial bearing furnished with campanes (bells).
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In heraldry campanes are bells.
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In heraldry, canting arms (also known as allusive arms or punning arms) are bearings in the nature of a rebus alluding to the name of the bearer. Thus, the Castletons bear three castles, and Pope Adrian IV (Nicholas Breakspeare) bore a broken spear on his coat of arms. Canting arms were respected until the reign of James I, after that they fell into disrepute.
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In heraldry a canton is a division of a shield occupying one third part of the chief, usually on the dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top of the shield, meeting a horizontal line from the side.
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In heraldry, the term cantoned refers to having a charge in each of the four corners. The term is said of a cross on a shield, and also of the shield itself.
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In heraldry, the cap of maintenance or chapeau is a velvet cap, usually crimson in colour, with a broad ermine brim or an ermine turned-up flap ending in two points at the back. The cap of maintenance is used in England only by peers and in Scotland only by feudal barons.
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In heraldry a carbuncle is a charge or bearing representing the precious stone. It has eight sceptres or staves radiating from a common centre.
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In heraldry, cartouche refers to a shape of shield. This is the plain ovally shaped shield, and is in reality a deformity of the shield, rather than a true shield shape.
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In heraldry a chaplet is a garland of leaves, with four flowers amongst them at equal distances.
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In heraldry, a chapournet is a chaperonnet or little hood, borne in a coat of arms to signify that the chief is divided by a bow-shaped line.
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In heraldry, a chausse denotes a section in base: the line by which it is formed proceeding from the extremity of the base, and ascending to the side of the escutcheon, where it meets about the fesse point.
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In heraldry, the term checky means divided into small alternating squares of two tinctures. The term is used of both the field and of an armorial bearing.
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In heraldry, a chess-rook is a bearing on a coat of arms representing the rook or castle piece from the game of chess.
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In heraldry a chevron is one of the nine honourable ordinaries, consisting of two broad bands of the width of the bar, issuing, respectively from the dexter and sinister bases of the field and conjoined at its centre. The ordinary chevron is supposed to reprsent two rafters meeting at the top.
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In heraldry, a chevronel is a bearing like a chevron, but of only half its width.
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In heraldry chevronwise means in the manner of a chevron, For example the field may be divided chevronwise.
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In heraldry, the chief or chief point is the head or principal part of the escutcheon. It contains the upper third of the field, and is determined by one line, either drawn straight or crenelle, or indented. The chief is in turn divided into three areas. The right side being the dexter chief, the middle the middle chief and the left side the sinister chief. Sometimes one chief is borne upon another, which is called surmounting, and is usually expressed by a line drawn across the uppermost part of the chief. When a chief is charged with anything it is said to be on chief, but when a thing is borne on the top of the escutcheon it is said to be borne in chief.
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In heraldry cle describes an heraldic bearing charged with another bearing of the same figure, and of the colour of the field, so large that only a narrow border of the first bearing remains visible.
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In heraldry, a cleche is a kind of cross, charged with a similar cross of the same figure, but of the same colour as the field.
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Coat of arms is a translation of the French cotte d'armes, which was a garment of light material worn over the armour in the 15th and 16th centuries. This was often charged with the heraldic bearings of the wearer, and the term came to mean a person's heraldic bearings.
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In heraldry a cockatrice is a representation of the mythical cockatrice, a reptile with the head, wings, and legs of a bird, and tail of a serpent.
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In heraldry combatant describes two bearings in the position of fighting - set face to face, each rampant.
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In heraldry, compony describes a bearing divided into squares of alternate tinctures in a single row.
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In heraldry, confronte means facing one-another or full-faced.
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In heraldry, conjoined or conjunct describes two or more bearings that are joined together or touching.
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In heraldry, contourne describes bearings turned a different way to usual, for example animals turned toward the sinister side.
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In heraldry a corbie is a raven, crow, or chough, used as a charge.
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In heraldry, corded describes something bound about, or wound, with cords.
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In heraldry a Cornish chough (aylet or sea wallow) is a bird represented in black, with red feet, and a red beak.
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In heraldry, a cottice or cotise is a diminutive of the bend, containing one-quarter its area. When a single cottice is used alone it is called a cost.
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In heraldry the term cotticed describes a bend set between two cottices.
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In heraldry, couchant describes a beast lying down with its head raised, which distinguishes the posture of couchant from that of dormant, or sleeping. The term is applied to both beasts of prey, such as lions and beasts of chase such as deer.
A lion couchant is emblematic of sovereignty.
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In heraldry, couche refers to a suspended shield, generally represented hanging by the sinister-chief angle. Shields couche are often used in Seals.
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In heraldry, the term couched describes something that is usually erect lying on its side. Thus, a chevron couched is one which emerges from one side of the escutcheon and has its apex on the opposite side, or at the fesse point.
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In heraldry, counter-couchant means lying down, with their heads in opposite directions; it is said of animals borne in a coat of arms.
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In heraldry, counter-courant means running in opposite directions; it is said of animals borne in a coast of arms.
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In heraldry, counter-paly describes something paly, and then divided fesswise, so that each vertical piece is cut into two, having the colours used alternately or counterchanged.
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In heraldry, counter-salient describes two figures leaping from each other.
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In heraldry counterchanged means having the tinctures exchanged mutually; thus, if the field is divided palewise, or and azure, and a cross is borne
counterchanged, that part of the cross which comes on the azure side will be or, and that on the or side will be azure.
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In heraldry the term counterflory describes an ordinary adorned with flowers (usually fleurs-de-lis) so divided that the tops appear on one side and the bottoms on the others.
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In heraldry, counterpassant describes two animals passant in opposite directions.
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In heraldry, counterpointe is an epithet applied to two chevrons which meet with their points in the centre of the escutcheon or opposite to each other.
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In heraldry, couped means cut off smoothly, as distinguished from erased and is especially used to describe the way the head or limb of an animal is displayed.
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In heraldry, the couple-close is a diminutive of the chevron, containing one quarter of its surface. Couple- closes are generally borne one on each side of a chevron, and the blazoning may then be either a chevron between two
couple-closes or chevron cotticed.
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In heraldry, courant describes an animal when running.
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In heraldry, the term coward is applied to a lion borne in the escutcheon with its tail doubled between its legs.
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In heraldry, cramponee describes a cross furnished with a cramp or square piece at the end.
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In heraldry, a crescent is displayed with the horns directed upward and is often used as a cadency mark to distinguish a second son and his descendants.
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In heraldry, a crest is a bearing worn, not upon the shield, but usually above it, or separately as an ornament for plate, liveries, and the like. It is a relic of the ancient cognisance.
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In heraldry, crined describes a figure as having the hair of a different tincture from the rest of the body.
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In heraldry, croissante describes a cross terminated with crescents at the ends.
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In heraldry, a cross bottony is a cross having each arm terminating in three rounded lobes, forming a sort of trefoil.
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In heraldry, a cross calvary is a cross, set upon three steps.
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In heraldry, cross forked describes a cross, the ends of whose arms are divided into two sharp points, also known as a cross double fitche.
A cross forked of three points is a cross, each of whose arms terminates in three sharp points.
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In heraldry, a cross humetty is a cross with the arms cut so they do not reach the edges of the shield.
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In heraldry, a cross moline is a cross each arm of which is divided at the end into two rounded branches or divisions. The cross moline is the cadency mark for the eighth son.
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In heraldry, the cross patee is a cross of four equal length arms that taper towards the centre of the cross.
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In heraldry, a cross potent is a cross comprised of four potents (crutch heads).
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In heraldry a cross-crosslet is a cross having the three upper ends crossed, so as to from three small crosses.
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In heraldry, a cubit-arm is an arm cut off at the elbow, represented as part of a crest.
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In heraldry, curval means bowed, bent or curved.
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In heraldry, a cygnet-royal is a depiction of a swan gorged with a ducal coronet, having a chain attached thereto, and reflexed over the back.
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