bendlet

Definitions

A diminutive of the bend, of the same shape, but only half the width of the bend.

Equivalents

Examples

“The shield was silver, charged with a red cross voided (that is, with the centre cut⟳ out and only the edges left), between in chief (that is, above the horizontal limb of the cross) two black dragon's wings, and in base⟳ two red daggers, and in the centre of the cross a black winged helmet; on a red chief (a broad band across the top of the shield), a silver pale (a broad vertical band), and thereon eight black arrows crossed X-wise, four and four, and encircled with a black band, between on the dexter three bendlets (narrow bands slanting from dexter chief to sinister base⟳) enhanced (that is, raised above the centre), and on the sinister a fleur-de-lis, all of gold.”

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