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In lugnet.castle, Steve Bliss writes:
> In lugnet.cad.dev, Dave Schuler writes:
> > In lugnet.castle, Steve Bliss writes:
> >
> > > > or more traditionally:
> > > > "Azure, A lion Salient Or"
> > >
> > > Maybe this is a stupid question, but does "Or" have a jargon-meaning? Or is
> > > it just 'or', used in an unusually-constructed phrase?
> >
> > Or = gold
>
> So this part
>
> http://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/ptdetail.cgi?f=parts/3846p4g.dat
>
> would be "Or, A lion Salient Azure"?
Yup, exactly right. If you want to get *stunningly* technical, "real"
heraldry omits any punctuation at all(1), but I find it a real pain to read
that way.
thanks,
James
1:technically "Or, A Lion Salient Azure" should be "Or a lion salient azure"
You can see how this gets confusing to folks used to reading english... :/
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