[ANSTHRLD] Odd question
Alasdair MacEogan
alasdair at bmhanson.net
Thu May 13 11:35:34 PDT 2010
Darin Herndon <darin.herndon at chk.com> wrote:
> If visually you move the vertical line of division to the left (as you are viewing it), aka towards the dexter side,
> so that the arms look like they are one-third one tincture and two-thirds another then what you have is a
> tierce on the dexter side. A tierce is an ordinary (it is a thing laying on the field) covering about one third
> of the space. Unless things have changed, you cannot charge a tierce (put something onto it).
See this page ( http://heralds.westkingdom.org/Templates/Ordinaries/index.htm ) and search for Tierce for an example. Sometimes it helps to see a picture. :-D
Alasdair
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