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

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