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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 Varriations

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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