an armorial of zimbabwe and rhodesia - Association of Amateur ...

Pheon an arrow head with barbed inner edges.
Pile a triangular wedge issuing from the top of
the shield.
Plate a silver (or white) roundel.
Pomeis (Pomme) a green roundel.
Proper the natural colour(s) of an object.
Purpure purple.
Quarterly divided into four parts.
Quatrefoil a four-leaved figure.
Rampant a beast standing on its left hind leg with
all others raised.
Reguardant of a beast looking back over its shoulder.
Rompu broken.
Sable black.
Salient of a beast springing or leaping.
Saltire a diagonally shaped cross (i.e.
St. Andrew's cross).
Seeded of the centre of a flower.
Semé strewn, scattered or powdered with small
charges.
Sinister the right hand side (from the onlooker's
viewpoint)
Slipped of the stalks of flowers or leaves.
Talbot an old English breed of hound.
Tenné tawny or orange.
Tincture colour, metal or fur.
Torteau a red roundel.
Trefoil a three-leaved figure, usually slipped
(i.e. a shamrock).
Tressure a narrow border inset from the edge of a
shield, usually double.
Vair a fur consisting of alternate pieces of blue
and white variously shaped.
Vert green.
Volant flying.
Vulned wounded and bleeding.
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