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fers à chevalfer à chevalclouépéeépéetêterosetêtetourteau

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blazon partially parsed (method lenient_en)

Gloucester, City of

commune·lenient_en·Burke (General Armory)

Blazon

Vert on a pale gules between two horseshoes, each horseshoe between three nails, two in chief and one in base, all meeting with their points to the shoe argent a sword in a scabbard azure hilt, pommel, and studding of the scabbard or, on the point of the sword a cap of maintenance gules turned up ermine on a chief per pale or and purpure a boar's head couped argent between two demi roses, the dexter gules barbed vert, the sinister of the third barbed vert, each issuing rays from its centre, pointing to the boar's head or. The arms for the Corporation by Sir Ricnarp Bett, Knt., Alderman of the city of Gloucester, tenp. Henry VIII., the original arms of the city being, or, three chevron gules between ten torteaux, three, three, three, and one

Tinctures

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

Charges

chef (ordinary)
chevron (ordinary)
clou (meuble)
épée (meuble)
fer à cheval (meuble)
fers à cheval (meuble)
pal (ordinary)
rose (meuble)
sanglier (meuble)
tête (meuble)
10× tourteau (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "sinople",
      "category": "colour"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "pal",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "gueules",
        "category": "colour"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "fers à cheval",
      "count": 2,
      "category": "meuble"
    },
    {
      "name": "fer à cheval",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "meuble"
    },
    {
      "name": "clou",
      "count": 3,
      "category": "meuble"
    },
    {
      "name": "épée",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "azur",
        "category": "colour"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "épée",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "meuble"
    },
    {
      "name": "chef",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "or",
        "category": "metal"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "tête",
      "count": 1,
      "detail": "sanglier",
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "argent",
        "category": "metal"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "rose",
      "count": 2,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "gueules",
        "category": "colour"
      },
      "attitudes": [
        "barbé"
      ],
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "barbé",
          "tincture": {
            "name": "sinople",
            "category": "colour"
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "tête",
      "count": 1,
      "detail": "sanglier",
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "or",
        "category": "metal"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "chevron",
      "count": 3,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "gueules",
        "category": "colour"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "tourteau",
      "count": 10,
      "category": "meuble"
    }
  ]
}

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