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24 Golpes (purp.), guzes (sang.), and oranges (tenné,), are occasionally to be met with in examples of foreign heraldry.

The Bezant, Plate, and Fountain are always represented fiat; the others in relief, and must be shaded accordingly.

A Roundle may also be blazoned of a fur; and is sometimes, though very rarely, charged.

., or, as the name implies, are drops, which, like the roundies, are distinguished by their tinctures.



Fig. 98 might be blazoned as Argent, guttée de sang, or guteé gules.

VARIED TINCTURES OF FIELDS AND CHARGES.

Fields are not always blazoned as of a simple tincture; sometimes the surface of the shield consists of a kind of pattern, on which the charges are placed. These patterns are formed by the lines representing the ordinaries and subordinaries, and from which they derive their names.

Paly means that the field is to be divided into an even number of pales, specifying the number. Thus the shield represented in the margin would be blazoned, ''Paly of six, arg. and ax''.