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Embowed () is a term in
Pimbley's Dictionary of Heraldry online - E
- accessed 17 July 2007 {{Heraldry footer Heraldry
Embowed () is a term in 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, Imperial, royal and noble ranks, rank and genealo ...
and architecture
Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and construction, constructi ...
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 itscoat of arms
A coat of arms is a heraldry, heraldic communication design, visual design on an escutcheon (heraldry), escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard (the last two being outer garments), originating in Europe. The coat of arms on an escutcheon f ...
. 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
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