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Argent a cross gules quarterly pierced nine crosses crosslet, three, three, and three counterchanged (the first quarter ermine for distinction) (Mary Ann Harvey Bonnell 1841) The cross voided (also une fausse croix ) has the same tincture of the field with only a narrow border outlining the limbs.
Argent, on a cross gules, cottised azure, five coronets erablé or; in the first quarter, a cross saltire gules, cottised interlaced azure, cantoned by four lozenges sable, the fourth quarter semy of lozenges sable. Another example
The term gules derives from the Middle English goules, which itself is an Old French word meaning "neckpiece made of red fur". Goules is derived from the Old French gole or guele, both of which mean "throat", which are ultimately derived from the Latin gula, also meaning "throat". Gules is similar to the English word gullet.
For Arms, Argent on a Cross Gules five pine-apples slipped OR: and upon a representation of Our Royal Helmet mantled OR doubled Ermine, for the Crest, On a Wreath Argent and Gules, Upon a Log fesse wise a Crocodile Proper: And for the Supporters, On the dexter side a West Indian Native Woman holding in the exterior hand a Basket of Fruits and ...
Gules, on a cross Or between 2 Maltese crosses argent each charged with a plate and 2 keys Or. dimidiated with Azure, a chevron throughout argent. (actually the sinister side is supposed to be 'Azure, a bend argent', but English blazon doesn't have a way for the dexter side to be treated as dimidiated and the sinister side as impaled.)
Paly of six argent and gules, on a chief of the first a lion passant sable: Bratton Clovelly: Lante [ag] Per pale argent and gules, a cross engrailed counterchanged: Exeter: Larder Argent, three piles sable each charged with as many bezants: Upton Pyne: Leach Ermine, on a chief engrailed gules three ducal coronets or
voided—Town of Lacombe: Or a cross Gules voided throughout of the field between in the first quarter a Mountain Bluebird (Sialia currucoides) volant bendwise Azure, in the second an open book Argent bound Azure, in the third a cross flory Azure voided of the field and charged with a cross couped Gules, and in the fourth two bendlets and two ...
Example of a standard pile, issuant from the chief, blazoned: Gules, a pile argent. In heraldry, a pile is a charge usually counted as one of the ordinaries (figures bounded by straight lines and occupying a definite portion of the shield). It consists of a wedge emerging from the upper edge of the shield and converging to a point near the base.