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  • Sometimes only the top half of a beast is shown; for example, the demi-lion is among the most common forms occurring in heraldic crests. Heads may appear cabossed...
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    is square and depicts the coat of arms. The heraldic colours of Bern are red and black. The heraldic beast of Bern is the bear. It has long served as namesake...
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    Tyger, also known as heraldic tiger or tygre, is an imaginary beast used as a charge in heraldry. To distinguish it from the naturally existing tiger,...
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    The Queen's Beasts are ten heraldic statues representing the genealogy of Queen Elizabeth II, depicted as the Royal supporters of England. They stood...
    19 KB (2,087 words) - 08:15, 26 April 2024
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    Heraldry (redirect from Heraldic)
    ancient Mesopotamian art of the same period, and the precursors of heraldic beasts such as the griffin can also be found. In the Bible, the Book of Numbers...
    88 KB (11,154 words) - 19:09, 16 June 2024
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    Yale (mythical creature) (category Heraldic beasts)
    and Myth, (2000) New York City: W.W. Norton. ISBN 0-393-32211-4. Donna M. Hrynkiw, The Yale: Heraldic Beast (August 20, 1998). Medieval Bestiary: Yale...
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    transformation into clan symbols would have followed naturally and easily. The heraldic beasts of medieval chivalry, which include many deer and felines like those...
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    forms. (The word "panther", in Greek, could be interpreted as "every wild beast", supporting the idea of a composite creature.) This was mostly because...
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    The King's Beasts are a series of 10 statues of heraldic animals that stand on the bridge over a moat leading to the great gatehouse of Hampton Court...
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    Manticore (category Heraldic beasts)
    "mantiger" in the 19th. It is noted that the manticore/mantiger of heraldic devices has a beast of prey body as standard, but sometimes chosen to be given dragon...
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    Chicken (category Heraldic beasts)
    The chicken (Gallus domesticus) is a large and round short-winged bird, domesticated from the red junglefowl of Southeast Asia around 8,000 years ago....
    65 KB (6,179 words) - 12:01, 19 June 2024
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    Lampago (category Heraldic beasts)
    A lampago or lympago is a mythical heraldic beast in the form of a "man-tiger or man-lion" with the body of a tiger or lion and the head of a man. It should...
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    continental European heraldic systems, cockatrices may be simply referred to as dragons instead. The cockatrice was the heraldic beast of the Langleys of...
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    Gallic rooster (category Heraldic beasts)
    the rooster adorning many of the Clouet products at the time. Another heraldic animal officially used by the French nation was the French Imperial Eagle...
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    attitude of a heraldic figure always precedes any reference to the tincture of the figure and its parts. Some attitudes apply only to predatory beasts, exemplified...
    29 KB (3,345 words) - 19:14, 9 April 2024
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    regular Wessex Brigade of the 1960s adopted a cap badge featuring the heraldic beast, until the regiments took back up individual regimental badges in the...
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    Pard (category Heraldic beasts)
    A pard (Ancient Greek: πάρδος) is the Greek word for the leopard, which is listed in medieval bestiaries and in Pliny the Elder's book Natural History...
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    ISBN 978-0-517-26643-4. Williams, N. J. A. (1989). "Of Beasts and Banners the Origin of the Heraldic Enfield". The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries...
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    Hippocampus (mythology) (category Heraldic beasts)
    in earlier Pictish mythology. The mythic hippocampus has been used as a heraldic charge, particularly since the Renaissance, most often in the armorial...
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    The Canadian Heraldic Authority (CHA; French: Autorité héraldique du Canada) is part of the Canadian honours system under the Canadian monarch, whose authority...
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