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crenellated structure with a door- Tressure - Sometimes described as
way and three windows. When the a diminutive of the orle, the tres-
blazon states a ' tower triple sure is always double and is almost
towered ' the three srnaIl additional invariably flory counter flory in
towers will be issuant from the which case it is decorated with
fleur-de-lis on the outer and inner
turret.
Tiransfixed - Pierced through.
edges.
Trick - A rough sketch of armorial
bearings usually in pencil in whicli
the tinctures are marked by abbre-
viations.
Tri-corporate - An expression des-
cribing a beast having three bodies
conjoined to one head which is
always placed on the fess point and
generally shown affronté.
prongs.
Tower
'Liippant - A term analogous to
Transposed - Reversed or othenvise passant applied to animals of the
placed contrary to the usual posi- chase.
tion.
Tront - The fish of that name.
Trees - Appear frequently in Her-
aIdry. sometimes rising from a Trumpet - If trumpet is stated
mount in base, sometimes eradi- specüically in the blazon it is to
cated in which case a decorative be shown as a long straigbt tube
fonn of root system must be em- expanding towards its end.
blazoned and if the tree is blazoned
Truncheon - A short cylindrical
as fructed, the appropriate fruits
stafE. A tnincheon is the official
must be shown, generally out of
badge of the Earl Marshal of Eng-
proportion for emphasis,
land. It consists of a golden rod
tipped at each end with black
Trefoil - Sometimes considered to
enamel and having the Royat arms
be the clover leaf and sometimes Trident - A fork with three barbed
the shamrock. It is the member of emblazoned at one end and the
the foi1 farnily with three blades Earl Marshai's at the other.
and the oniy one which is slipped.
Tudor Rose - Represents the join-
ing of the Houses of York and
Lancaster. It is represented by one
rose superimposed upon anoiher
eitber argent upon guIes or vice
versa and occasionally emblazoned
per pale.
lhrned Up - Refers to the brim of
Trefoil the Cap of Estate or similar type