heraldry Heraldry is a discipline relating to the design, display and study of armorial bearings (known as armory), as well as related disciplines, such as vexillology, together with the study of ceremony, rank and pedigree. Armory, the best-known branch ...

, carnation is a

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, the name for

skin colour Human skin color ranges from the darkest brown to the lightest hues. Differences in skin color among individuals is caused by variation in pigmentation, which is the result of genetics (inherited from one's biological parents and or individu ...

, more exactly the colour of pale or white human skin (i.e., pale pinkish peach). It is rare in coats of arms in Anglophone countries but quite frequent on the European continent, in France in particular, derived from widespread use in German heraldry. In its rare appearances in Anglophone armory; it is not only used for European flesh tones as in ''a crown rayonny or supported by two cubit arms, dexter carnation, sinister skeletal proper'' (

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of The

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) but also as a general pink colouring as in ''a horse passant argent bridled saddled and trappings or, on its head a plume of three feathers carnation'' (crest of The

Worshipful Company of Saddlers The Worshipful Company of Saddlers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. A Guild of Saddlers, the Company's predecessor, is thought to have been an Anglo-Saxon Craft Guild – it certainly existed at some point in the eleventh ...

, England).

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