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	Armory of Flemish Nobles of the 16th Century
		Ermine, on a bend gules in canton a sexfoil pierced argent.
		Azure, a lion rampant or debruised by a bend compony ermine and gules.
		Ermine, a lion passant guardant gules orbed and langued argent.
	www.s-gabriel.org /docs/flem-heraldry.html (3821 words)

	Tincture (heraldry) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In heraldry, tinctures are the colours used to blazon a coat of arms.
		Ermine is in design a field argent, semé (see variations of the field) of ermine-spots sable, but is not so regarded; it is regarded as a plain tincture.
		Ermines is the reverse of ermine – a field sable semé of ermine-spots argent.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tincture_(heraldry) (2343 words)

	Heraldry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Heraldry is the science and art of describing coats-of-arms, also referred to as achievements or armorial bearings.
		The first thing the blazon describes is the tincture (colour) of the field (background) (though in some cases of "landscape heraldry" all or part of the field is some sort of landscape), and then it describes the placement and tinctures of the different charges (objects) on the shield.
		In heraldry, a motto is often depicted in a coat of arms, typically on a scroll under the arms, or else above it as in Scots heraldry.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Heraldry (3244 words)

	Probert Encyclopaedia: Heraldry (E) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In heraldry, the term engouled (engoulee) means partly swallowed and describes an object disappearing into the jaws of anything, for example an infant engouled by a serpent.
		In heraldry, ermine is a fur represented by an argent field, tufted with fl.
		Ermines is the reverse of ermine, being fl, spotted or timbered with argent.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /U2.HTM (634 words)

	tenne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In addition to bleu celeste, there is also an apparently unique example in British heraldry of the use of "dark blue" and "light blue," in the arms of the Borough of Barnes, through which the Oxford verus Cambridge boat race passes on the Thames, showing the respective blades of the teams' oars.
		Ermine is a field argent, semé (see variations of the field) of ermine-spots sable.
		Ermines is the reverse of ermine - a field sable semé of ermine-spots argent.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Tenne.html (1781 words)

	Stoat - Encyclopedia, History and Biography
		In heraldry, the term "ermine" is used to mean a white field strewn with small bell-shaped designs called ermine-spots.
		Since the ermine, the heraldic creature of Brittany, had been adopted as a royal emblem by kings of France, there may be a sly reference to the unsuccessful suit of the Duke of Alençon in 1583.
		The ermine in allegory and as a Renaissance emblem (http://f01.middlebury.edu/FS010A/STUDENTS/n075.htm)
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Stoat (1360 words)

	ChristStory Ermine Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Because of its white coloring, the ermine is a symbol of moral purity and innocence.
		Because its coat turns brown in the summer, the white ermine seems to die in the spring and be reborn in the winter.
		In the past, the ermine was believed to be an amphibious creature which preferred death to the soiling of its fur.
	ww2.netnitco.net /users/legend01/ermine.htm (235 words)

	Pimbley's Dictionary of Heraldry - E (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ermine - (er'-min) One of the furs used in blazoning, representing the skin of the little animal of that name.
		A field of ermine is white with fl spots of a particular shape.
		The animal ermine is scarcely known in heraldry, although its fur is widely borne.
	digiserve.com /heraldry/pimb_e.htm (1589 words)

	Norwood Heraldry
		The shield: ermine, a cross engrailed gules; the crest: on waves of the sea ppr., a lion sejant holding between the paws an anchor, flukes upward; the mantling: gules and ermine doubled; the motto:
		The shield: ermine, a cross engrailed gules, a crescent for cadency; the crest: a demi-lion rampant erased argent, ducally crowned or, holding between the gambs a palm branch proper; the mantling: gules and ermine doubled; the motto:
		The shield: ermine, a cross engrailed gules; the crest: a demi-lion rampant [erased] or, holding in his dexter paw a branch of laurel argent, berried or; the mantling: gules and ermine doubled; the motto:
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Estates/4805/hbrpg2.htm (559 words)

	Heraldry for Scribes
		The purpose of this class is to acquaint scribes in the SCA with the conventions of heraldry that we use.
		The most basic rule of heraldry is "Thou shalt not put a color on a color, nor a metal on a metal." The reason behind this is that armory must have good contrast to be identifiable at a distance.
		Ermine furs are a basic field scattered with ermine spots, and are treated according to their base field color; thus ermine and erminois would be considered metal fields, while counter-ermine and pean would be considered color fields.
	www.geocities.com /sorchamacleod/hfs.html (2722 words)

	SCA Inc. College of Arms Glossary of Terms, December 23, 2003
		The most common are ermine (argent with sable ermine spots), counter-ermine (sable with argent ermine spots; also known as ermines, a term that is not used in the SCA due to the possibility of typographic errors), erminois (Or with sable ermine spots) and pean (sable with Or ermine spots).
		Ermine spots can also be used as normal charges; if not in a strewn arrangement they are treated no differently from any other charges.
		Ermine spots in an ermined tincture are not considered strewn charges; they are considered part of a separate tincture.
	www.sca.org /heraldry/coagloss.html (8470 words)

	Ermine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ermine is the fur of an animal also called ermine (Mustela erminea), of the weasel family, commonly found in Northern Eurasia.
		The ermine's fur is brown on top and yellowish white on bottom; but, in winter, it turns white.
		This pattern was imitated in heraldry, as early as the second half of the 12th c., and came to be one of the two main furs.
	www.heraldica.org /topics/ermine.htm (487 words)

	Valentine Armouries - Heraldry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Heraldry originated in medieval western europe during the period of tournaments.
		It was a way to clearly signify the different contestants or the noble families at a distance and in the heat of battle.
		is the branch of heraldry concerned with coat armour and also describes a book of coats of arms listed in the order of the names of the bearers.
	www.varmouries.com /vherald.html (587 words)

	DragonBear: Designs Period: Section IVA: Heraldry (Basic)
		Ermine Spots: "ermine" is fl spots on a white background (from the fl-tipped ermine tails used in the actual fur trim).
		"Ermines" is the term for white spots on fl, "erminois" is for fl spots on gold, and "pean" is for gold spots on fl.
		In heraldry, the colors used are blue and white, or the term is "vairy of" other colors and metals.
	www.dragonbear.com /dp/dp10.html (461 words)

	Family Crest and Coat of Arms: Parts of a Coat of Arms
		Heraldry has been defined as the art of blazoning, assigning, and marshalling a coat of arms.
		One historian (Beryl Platts, author of Origins of Heraldry) notes that "family identification" was practiced in northern Europe even before the Norman Conquest, and she believes that all heraldry in England is the derivation of the heraldic devices brought by the families who accompanied William the Conqueror.
		Whenever a new Knight appeared at a Tournament, the herald sounded the trumpet, and as the competitors attended with closed visors, it was his duty to explain the bearing of the shield or coat-armour belonging to each.
	www.fleurdelis.com /coatofarms.htm (1107 words)

	Tincture (heraldry) Details, Meaning Tincture (heraldry) Article and Explanation Guide
		Only three are of more than exceptional use in British heraldry: murrey (mulberry-coloured), sanguine (blood-red) and tenné (orange or tan, though in Dutch and South African heraldry orange is regarded as a different colour).
		In German heraldry there are also the colours "grey", "Eisen" (iron) and "earth colour" and "water colour".
		In South African heraldry, the arms of the University of Transkei provide an example of ochre[1].
	www.e-paranoids.com /t/ti/tincture__heraldry_.html (1962 words)

	Stoat biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 15th and 16th century allegorical portraiture, the ermine accompanies unwed ladies, as in Leonardo da Vinci's enigmatic Lady with an Ermine painted in 1482-83, to represent his patron's chaste mistress, Cecilia Gallerani.
		Since the ermine, the heraldic creature of Brittany, had been adopted as a royal emblem by kings of France, there may be a sly reference to the unsuccessful suit of the Duke of Alencon in 1583.
		The ermine in allegory and as a Renaissance emblem
	ermine.biography.ms (1248 words)

	HERALDRY
		Heraldry is an Art which can take years to master.
		Ermine, generally displayed as a white-argent field with a repeating fl-sable motif representing the animals tails.
		In heraldry to "blazon" means to write a description of a device while to "emblazon" refers to an artistic representation of arms.
	www.rameset.com /heraldry.htm (938 words)

	Read about Ermine at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Ermine and learn about Ermine here! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In heraldry, one of the furs used in blazoning, representing the skin of the little animal of that French name (
		The blazon of Bretagne is "Ermine", the shortest blazon in existence.
		A field of ermines is sable with argent spots.
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Ermine (105 words)

	Christmas Meditation on the Symbolism of Ermine as Purity and Innocence by Marian Therese Horvat @ TraditionInAction.org
		Obviously, the purity, innocence, and nobility of the ermine is symbolized in its highest degree in the Christ Child, the most pure and noble of all beings.
		For this reason, the ermine’s fur was attached to the robes and cloaks of royalty, nobles and dignitaries, including the Princes of the Roman Catholic Church, as a reminder of the valor, justice and dignity their offices require in motive, discipline, behavior and teaching.
		Like the ermine that prefers death to defilement, we should be ready to die rather than commit a mortal sin, sullying the whiteness of our souls with the deadly stain of sin.
	www.traditioninaction.org /religious/a012rp.ErmineChristmas2003htm.html (1003 words)

	Ermine - Cunnan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		One of the furs used as a tincture (colour) in heraldry.
		It consists of fl (sable) ermine spots on a white (argent) field.
		The ermine or short-tailed weasel, whose skins are represented by the heraldic tincture (the fl spots representing either the little legs and feet, or the fl-ended tail), lives in cold regions of North America and Europe.
	www.nzart.com /wiki/Ermine (155 words)

	Heraldic Symbolism in Tristram and Isoud
		Heraldry evolved as a science sometime during the twelfth century from a combination of symbols used for seals, banners, and other types of insignia.
		The study of augmentations and abatements of honor, however, is a close approach to the area of heraldry, which, for scholars of literature, is very important: the study of the symbolism behind charges and colors in coats of arms, which is called heraldic symbolism.
		This paper has described the terminology of heraldry, given a brief history of why and how its symbolic code came to be, and examined the arms of major and minor characters in several versions of the legend of Tristram and Isoud in the light of that symbolic code.
	pages.ripco.net /~clevin/tristram.html (3568 words)

	~ Maddie's Site / Ermine ~ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ermine in heraldry is a white field with a regular pattern of fl ermine spots.
		It is the fur of the small animal ermine, whose fur is brown on top and yellowish white on bottom; but they turn white during the winter except for the tip of the tail, which is fl.
		Althought the actual design of the fl spots varies over time and place, it is usually now depicted as three dots arranged in a triangle, with a tail extending down and flaring out slightly.
	maddiegirl.bravehost.com /Heraldry/Ermine.html (160 words)

	Viscom CM 235: The Basic Elements of Heraldry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Heraldry - The art or science of blazoning or describing in proper terms coats of arms.
		It treats also of the history and meaning of armorial bearings, rules governing their use and transmission, and their connection with titular rank, family dignities and genealogies.
		Those charges which have been imported into heraldry from all quarters, representing an array of objects, natural and artificial, from reptiles and insects to human being and celestial figures.
	viscomlab.blogspot.com /2004/12/basic-elements-of-heraldry.html (324 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ermine a lion rampant sable crowned azure holding in his dexter paw a flag of the second five ermine spots argent.
		Vert a pall or a chief ermine a bend wavy azure.
		The three ermine's tails are the three constituent parts of the commune; the miscroscope indicates local industry; and the ear of wheat is a symbol of agriculture.
	www.briantimms.com /chf/06bretagne.htm (10129 words)

	CIVIC HERALDRY OF ENGLAND AND WALES-HERTFORDSHIRE (OBSOLETE)
		The blue wavy and the ermine bands represent the River Lea and the Roman Ermine Street, the former forms the district's eastern boundary and the later crosses the district south to north.
		The background of royal ermine, represents the royal visits to and associations with the district, principally the visit of Henry VIII and his court to Tyttenhanger in 1525 to avoid the "sweatinge sicknesse" and the visits of Charles II to Salisbury Hall in Shenley.
		The barry field and ermine lion are from the heraldry of the Cecils, and Hatfield has been the seat of this branch of the family ever since.
	www.civicheraldry.co.uk /herts_ob.html (1897 words)

	heraldry
		The surface of the shield is known as the field and the art of good heraldry is to keep the field as simple as possible, using as few tinctures, metals, shapes and objects as possible.
		Seven principal tinctures and a group of furs, plus notional furs that are essentially the same tinctures arranged in specific geometric patterns, form the field of the shield.
		It does have its own existence as a constituent colour of ermine and of vair, and it exists as the colour of a label on the arms of Britain's princes.
	www.obcgs.com /heraldry.htm (1026 words)

	Matthew Glozier's Heraldry Site
		Arms: Quarterly: 1 and 4, Gules, three cinqfoils pierced of the field ermine (Hamilton): 2 and 3, Argent, a Lymphad, sails furled, Sable (Arran): Overall a ribbon in bend sinister (Sable?).
		The shield ensigned with a ducal coronet (sic).
		Arms: Quarterly: 1, Ermine, two piles extending from in chief conjoined in base Sable (Holles): 2, Argent, a Lion rampant: 3, Sable, a mullet between the horns of a crescent (Argent?): 4, Argent, three chevronells (Sable?).
	www.computerwebhelp.com /heraldry/gh.html (5013 words)

	CIVIC HERALDRY OF ENGLAND AND WALES-NORFOLK
		Faith's and Aylsham RDC, are the sleeved arm holding a red rose from the arms of the Abbey of Conches which owned the Priory of Horsham St. Faith, and the ermine ostrich feathers of John of Gaunt who kept his Duchy of Lancaster court in Norfolk at Aylsham.
		The blue and gold of the wreath symbolize the waters and crops of the District and are also the heraldic colours of the Bishopric of Norwich and the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds, both of which held manors and lands in both the former Rural District Council areas.
		The Griffin is also from the heraldry of the Paston family, and the radiant sun refers to the healthy nature of the district.
	www.civicheraldry.co.uk /norfolk.html (1491 words)

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