Meaning of of the colours | Babel Free

Definitions

Having, in alternating sections, the principal metal and principal colour of the associated arms.

Examples

“CREST – Upon a torce of the colours, a swan's neck and breast, with wings displayed, proper.”

“Crests - 1. on a wreath of the colours, a cock proper, charged with a crescent gules (Corry); 2. on a wreath of the colours, a garland between two laurel branches vert (Lowry)[…]”

“The shield is ensigned by a helmet to dexter with mantlings or and gules, and surmounted by the crest; out of a torse of the colours a lion rampant issuant or.”

“Unless other tinctures are specified, the torse, like the mantling, is of the colours, i.e. of the principal metal and the principal colour.”

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