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Drawn from the blazon

merlettehachelauriermerlettemerlettehache

Approximate rendering

blazon partially parsed (method lenient_en)

Massue

family·IE·lenient_en·Burke (General Armory)

Blazon

Quarterly, Ist and 4th, argent a fess gules in chief three martlets sable on a canton or, a battle axe of the third; 2nd, gules a chaplet of laurel or, a chief chequy argent and azure; 3rd, argent three martlets gules

Tinctures

argent (charge)
argent (field)
azur (charge)
gueules (charge)
gueules (field)
gueules (ordinary)
or (charge)
or (ordinary)
sable (charge)

Charges

canton (ordinary)
chef (ordinary)
fasce (ordinary)
hache (meuble)
laurier (meuble)
merlette (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "argent",
      "category": "metal"
    },
    "partition": "écartelé",
    "sub_fields": [
      {
        "charges": [
          {
            "name": "fasce",
            "count": 1,
            "category": "ordinary",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "gueules",
              "category": "colour"
            }
          },
          {
            "name": "merlette",
            "count": 3,
            "category": "meuble",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "sable",
              "category": "colour"
            },
            "attitudes": [
              "en chef"
            ]
          },
          {
            "name": "canton",
            "count": 1,
            "category": "ordinary",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "or",
              "category": "metal"
            }
          },
          {
            "name": "hache",
            "count": 1,
            "category": "meuble",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "du troisième",
              "category": "",
              "reference": "du troisième"
            }
          }
        ],
        "tincture": {
          "name": "argent",
          "category": "metal"
        },
        "positions": [
          "1",
          "4"
        ]
      },
      {
        "charges": [
          {
            "name": "laurier",
            "count": 1,
            "category": "meuble",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "or",
              "category": "metal"
            }
          },
          {
            "name": "chef",
            "count": 1,
            "category": "ordinary",
            "modifiers": [
              {
                "verb": "échiqueté",
                "tincture": {
                  "name": "argent",
                  "category": "metal"
                }
              },
              {
                "verb": "échiqueté",
                "tincture": {
                  "name": "azur",
                  "category": "colour"
                }
              }
            ]
          }
        ],
        "tincture": {
          "name": "gueules",
          "category": "colour"
        },
        "positions": [
          "2"
        ]
      },
      {
        "charges": [
          {
            "name": "merlette",
            "count": 3,
            "category": "meuble",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "gueules",
              "category": "colour"
            }
          }
        ],
        "tincture": {
          "name": "argent",
          "category": "metal"
        },
        "positions": [
          "3"
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "is_compound": true
}

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