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Embowed

Heraldic attitude indicating curved or arched

Embowed

Heraldic attitude indicating curved or arched

The Triskelion on the [[Flag of the Isle of Man

Embowed () is a term in heraldry and architecture which means:

  • curved like a bow (when applied to fish, animals or heraldic charges)
  • bent (when applied to the human arm or leg), or
  • having an arch or arches but, in the Anglophone heraldries, concave ones, not bulging out convex ones.

Examples

The heraldic examples illustrated show the pile embowed inverted throughout azure of the Coat of arms of the Western Cape, and the three legs embowed conjoined in the fesse points in armour proper spurred and garnished or of the Triskelion on the Flag of the Isle of Man and its coat of arms. Fish embowed can be seen in the crest of Thompson Rivers University.

References

  • Pimbley's Dictionary of Heraldry: An Authoritative Guide to the Terminology of Heraldry by Arthur Francis Pimbley (1908)
  • Chambers 20th Century Dictionary ed. E. M. Kirkpatrick (W. & R. Chambers Ltd, Edinburgh, new edition, 1983)
  • Pimbley's Dictionary of Heraldry online - E - accessed 17 July 2007

References

  1. "International Civic Heraldry - South African Civic Heraldry- WESTERN CAPE PROVINCE".
  2. "International Civic Heraldry-United Kingdom MAN".
  3. "Thompson Rivers University [Civil Institution]".
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