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number of vertical parts. The num- Pawne - Sometimes used as a name
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ber and appropriate tinctiares must for the peacock.
be given.
Peacock in his Pride - The term
Panache - An arrangement of
generally used when blazoning the
feathers sometimes found forming peacock who is tlzen depicted
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affronté with his tail extended.
a crest.
Panther - This animal is always Peau - One of the furs (q.v.).
gardant
and
borne
generalIy
incensed (q.v.).
Pear - This, like other fruit. niay be
pendant, erect or fesswise.
Parrot - The bird of that name but
blazoned as popinjay.
Pearls - An expression sometimes
used to describe the silver bails on
certain coronets but never actually
Parted, party - Divided. An expres-
represented as pearIs.
sion used when a shield is divjded
as party per pale, party per fess. In
modern Heraldry the word pars is Peer - A general name given to the
geaerally omitted from the blazon. NobiIity of Great Britain, thus indi-
cating their equality of rank as a
class irrespective of their dBerences
Partition, Lines oE - See elsewhere
in degree within the peerage.
under ' Unes of Partition '.
Peeress, In her own Eght - A lady
Paschal Lamb, or Holy Lamb -
who succeeds to her father's peerage
Which is always enzblazoned facing
in default of heirs male.
the dexter and holding alofr a flag
bearing the cross of St. George.
Pegasus - A winged horse classified
as a monster {q.v.).
Passant - A wo~d used to express
the position of a beasi: walking to
Pelican in her Pieîy - The pelican
the dexter. Ris dexter paw is raised
is norrnally blazoned in her piety
but the other three are firmly on
when feeding her young with drops
the ground. He is looking to his
of blood drawn from her breast.
front unless blazoned gardant or
e
wings are always shown
regardant.
ad orsecl.
Passion Cross - An alternative name - An terna tive name for
for the Latin Cross (q.v.1.
I the roundle sable. ln early Heraldry
the pellet might be a roundle of any
Pastoral St& - The Crosier. colour.
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Patte - A term applied to the Pendant - Hanging down as a leaf
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cooped cross with each arm splayed or fruit with the stalk upwards.
outwards with curved lines.
Pemant, Pennon - The small two
Patonce - Describes a frequently tailed flag carried by a Knight. Pen-
used cross, the arms of which ter- nous were not charged with arms
minate in three points. but only with crests, Neraldic and
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