[ANSTHRLD] Fimbriation

[Tim McDaniel]

On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, GeekGrrl <geekgrrl at geekgrrl.org> wrote:
> How about:
>
> Sable, between two cups Or, a bend sinister wavy vert fimbriated Or

CoA Glossary of Terms:

    Primary Charge Group. The most important group of charges in a
    piece of armory.  In blazons, the primary charge group is usually
    mentioned immediately after the field. (A strewn charge group is
    not primary when it is blazoned before a central charge group.)
    The primary charge is usually the central ordinary lying entirely
    on the field, if one is present.  If there is no such central
    ordinary, then the primary charge group is the set of charges of
    the same size that lie in the center of the design and directly on
    the field.  In any piece of armory with charges there will always
    be a primary charge group, unless the only charges are peripheral.
    There cannot be more than one primary charge group in any given
    design.  In Gules, a pale between two mullets argent, the pale is
    the primary charge. ...

Thus the bend sinister is the primary charge, so

    Sable, a bend sinister wavy vert fimbriated
    between two cups Or.

(Because the fimbriation is Or, but the next tincture mentioned is
also Or, the first occurrence of "Or" can be elided.)

Daniel "Or else" de Lincolia
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