ORDINARIES IN HERALDRY - III

Symboils included upon this page are variations of the fess, chevron, and other charges. Some symbols, like the bordure and its variations, could exist both as the charge itself or as a border around the charge.

DIMINUATIVES

bars   palets bendlets chevronels
 
base bars gemel dexter tierce bendlets enhanced chevronels braced
As with any ordinary, the edges of bars, palets, chevronels, etc. may be straight or otherwise:

two bars engrailed

two bars invecked

two bars dovetailed

two bars raguly

two bars embattled

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VARIATIONS OF THE FESS, CHEVRONS AND BENDS

argent a fess couped azure fess wreathed argent a chevron quarterly
sable and gules
argent a chevron rompu gules
gules a bend barry
argent and sable
gules a bend compony
argent and sable
gules a bend lozengy argent

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GEOMETRIC DIVISIONS OF THE FIELD

gyronny of six
sable and argent
gyronny of eight
sable and argent
chequy
sable and argent
lozengy
sable and argent
fusilly
azure and argent
gyronny of twelve
sable and argent
gyronny of sixteen
sable and argent
barry gules & argent,
per chevron
conterchanged
barry-bendy
gules and argent
paly-bendy
argent and azure

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GEOMETRIC OBJECTS ON THE FIELD

fusil lozenge mascle rustre fret
quarter canton chief point gyron or esquire fretty
billet escutcheon flaunches shakefork ecclesiastical pallium

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BORDURE VARIATIONS

per pale
sanguine and sable
tierced in pairle
gules, sable and azure
quartery
sanguine and sable
gyronny of eight
sable and sanguine
compony
or and gules
counter-compony
argent and sable
chequy
sable and argent
orle tressure flory
counter-flory
an escutcheon
within a bodure

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