Bar (heraldry)
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title:
Bar (heraldry)
text:
In English heraldry, the bar is an heraldic ordinary consisting of a horizontal band extending across the shield. In form, it closely resembles the fess but differs in breadth: the bar occupies one-fifth of the breadth of the field of the escutcheon; the fess occupies one-third. Heraldists differ in how they class the bar in relation to the fess. A number of authors consider the bar to be a diminutive of the fess. But, others, including Guillim (1638), assert that the bar is a separate and disti
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_(heraldry)
date created:
2009-03-19T10:08:11Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T05:52:01Z
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