bend

heraldry

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elements of design

  • Akkadian cylinder seal
    In heraldry: Ordinaries

    …perpendicularly through the centre; the bend, a third of the shield, drawn from the dexter chief to sinister base (when drawn from the dexter base to sinister chief, it is a bend sinister); the fess, a third drawn horizontally and taking up the centre of the shield; and the chevron,…

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