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A chevron (also spelled cheveron, especially in older documents) is a V-shaped mark or symbol, often inverted.The word is usually used in reference to a kind of fret in architecture, or to a badge or insignia used in military or police uniforms to indicate rank or length of service, or in heraldry and the designs of flags (see flag terminology).
In heraldry, the field (background) of a shield can be divided into more than one area, or subdivision, of different tinctures, usually following the lines of one of the ordinaries and carrying its name (e.g. a shield divided in the shape of a chevron is said to be parted "per chevron").
Another heraldic group is the chevron bearers of the de Clare family. Gilbert Strongbow's sisters spread this emblem among the Montfitchet and Monmouth lineages, while a cousin, Walter Fitz Robert of Little Dunmow, also used it. His seal shows a shield, horse cover, and saddle cloth covered with a chevron.
Heraldry developed at a time when, subsequent to the Norman Conquest, English clerks wrote in Anglo-Norman French; consequently, many terms in English heraldry, as a distinct style of the craft, are of French origin, as is the practice of most adjectives being placed after nouns rather than, as is standard in English, before. A problem arises ...
The Bible is replete with passages referring to being at the "right hand" of God. Sinister is used to indicate that an ordinary or other charge is turned to the heraldic left of the shield. A bend sinister is a bend (diagonal band) which runs from the bearer's top left to bottom right, as opposed to top right to bottom left. [ 3 ]
Escutcheon: Per chevron gules and argent, in chief a slip of White Amaryllis flowers leaved proper, and a Catherine Wheel also argent, and in base a cedar tree eradicated also proper; on a chief of the second between two greyhounds' heads erased sable, an open book likewise proper, bound gules, edged and clasped Or, thereon the words Te Deum ...
Heraldry is a discipline relating to the design, display and study of armorial bearings (known as armory), as well as related disciplines, such as vexillology, together with the study of ceremony, rank and pedigree. [1] [2] Armory, the best-known branch of heraldry, concerns the design and transmission of the heraldic achievement.
Ecclesiastical heraldry differs notably from other heraldry in the use of special insignia around the shield to indicate rank in a church or denomination. The most prominent of these insignia is the low crowned, wide brimmed ecclesiastical hat, commonly the Roman galero .