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In heraldry, dancette means deeply indented or having large teeth. thus a fesse dancette has only three teeth in the whole width of the escutcheon.
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In heraldry, debased means turned upside down from its proper position or inverted or reversed.
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In heraldry, debruised means surmounted by an ordinary. The term may be applied for example to a lion as being debruised when a bend or other ordinary is placed over it. It is used as a symbol of illegitimacy.
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In heraldry, a decrescent is a crescent depicted with the horns directed towards the sinister.
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In heraldry, degraded describes a cross furnished with steps, particularly a cross whose extremities finishes in steps growing larger as they leave the centre.
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In heraldry, dexter is the right-hand side of a shield, i.e., towards the right hand of its wearer. To a spectator in front, as in a pictorial representation, this is the left side.
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In heraldry, the dexter base is a point in the dexter lower part or base of the shield.
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In heraldry, the dexter chief or dexter point is a point in the dexter upper corner of the shield, being in the dexter extremity of the chief.
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In heraldry, a diadem is an arch rising from the rim of a crown (also sometimes, but rarely of a coronet), and uniting with others over its centre.
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In heraldry, diapering is a system of decorating plain surfaces in various ways with decorative designs and patterns, which unlike charges are not required to obey the laws of tinctures.
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In heraldry, dimidation is a type of marshalling in which the two coats of arms are combined by the dividing the shield with a vertical line at the centre, with the dexter half of one coat of arms and the sinister half of the other appearing joined at the middle, rather than fully distinct in the case of impalement.
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In heraldry, dimidiate means to represent the half of or to halve.
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In heraldry, disarmed refers to a beast or bird depicted without claws, and teeth or a beak.
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In heraldry, disclosed describes fowls represented with their wings expanded, but with the points downwards.
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In heraldry the term displayed is applied to a bird of prey, especially an eagle, depicted with its wings expanded.
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In heraldry dormant describes a sleeping posture.
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In heraldry, the double quatrefoil is the cadency mark for the ninth son.
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In heraldry the doubling is the lining of the mantle borne about the shield or escutcheon.
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In heraldry, a dragonnee is a mythical beast comprised of an upper part resembling a lion and the under part the wings and tail of a dragon.
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