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Subject: 
Re: Heraldry Terms
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.castle, lugnet.cad.dev
Date: 
Thu, 8 Aug 2002 14:59:13 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, James Brown wrote:

> 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.

This is all going into the keywords search info, so stunningly technical
is probably more than I'll deliver on. :)

Steve



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  Re: Heraldry Terms
 
(...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 7-Aug-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.cad.dev)

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