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In heraldry a garb is a sheaf of grain (wheat, unless otherwise specified).
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In heraldry, gemel means coupled or paired.
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In heraldry, a gentleman is a man who bears arms, but has no title.
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In heraldry, a giron or gyron is a charge consisting of the lower half of a diagonally divided quarter, usually in the top left corner of the shield.
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In heraldry, gobonated refers to a border, pale, bend or other charge divided into equal parts forming squares.
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A gonfalon was an ensign or standard, the term usually being applied to an ensign having two or three streamers or tails, fixed on a frame made to turn like a ship's vane, or, as in the case of the Papal gonfalon, suspended from a pole similar to a sail from a mast.
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In heraldry, a gore is one of the abatements. It is made of two curved lines, meeting in an acute angle in the fesse point. It is usually on the sinister side, and of the tincture called tenne. The gore is traditionally held to denote a coward, and like the other abatements it is a modern (that is post Mediaeval) fancy and not actually used.
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In heraldry, the term gorged describes a figure bearing a coronet or ring about the neck.
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In heraldry, a goutte is a sub-ordinary representing a droplet.
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In heraldry, guardant describes a beast represented with its head turned towards the spectator, but not the body.
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Gules is the heraldic name for the colour red. It ranks highest among the colours. It is indicated in seals and engraved figures of escutcheons by parallel vertical lines. Because of its heraldic connection. the word gules is used poetically for a red colour or that which is red. Gules ranks after the metals or and argent, and has the highest place among colours.
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In heraldry, a gusset in a coast of arms is an abatement or mark of dishonour. It is formed by a line drawn from the dexter or sinister chief point one third across the shield, and then descending perpendicularly to the base. It may be on either the dexter or sinister side of the shield; on the former it is an abatement for adultery; on the latter for drunkenness.
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In heraldry, gutty means charged or sprinkled with drops.
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In heraldry, guze is a roundlet of the tincture sanguine, which is blazoned without mention of the tincture.
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In heraldry, a gyron is a subordinary of triangular form having one of its angles at the fesse point and the opposite side at the edge of the escutcheon. When there is only one gyron on the shield it is bounded by two lines drawn from the fesse point, one horizontally to the dexter side, and one to the dexter chief corner.
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In heraldry, the term gyrony describes an escutcheon covered with gyrons, or divided so as to form several gyrons.
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