[ANSTHRLD] A couple conflict checks

Teceangl tierna at agora.rdrop.com
Mon Jun 10 16:23:05 PDT 2002


> > "a tressure" *is* an orle.  Tressure is the dimunative of
> > orle and tressures only come in groups in the SCA.
>
> This is probably where my confusion is coming from. I have always thought an orle followed the shape of a shield and only coincidentally looked like a Tressure on a heater shape shield. (eg a tressure is heater shield shaped and an orle can change shapes). I seem to keep talking to people whoi tell me one way on this and then the other.

Tressures, orles and bordures all follow the shape of display, whether it be
heater, round, lozenge, or whatever.

> >From Parker @ http://www04.u-page.so-net.ne.jp/ta2/saitou/ie401/Jpglosst.htm#Tressure
>
> Tressure, (old fr. tressour, fr. trecheur): a subordinary, considered by some as a diminutive of the orle. It may be single or double(and some say even triple), but is mostly borne double.....
>
> So you are saying a Tressure is like a bendlet which in the SCA can only be done used in arrangements of more than one.

Exactly!  One is an orle, mor than one is a double tressulre, triple tressure,
etc.

- Teceangl
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