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Drawn from the blazon

merlettequartefeuillequartefeuillecroissantrosecroissantcroissantrosecroissantmerlettequartefeuillequartefeuille

Approximate rendering

blazon partially parsed (method lenient_en)

Melville-Whyte

family·GB·lenient_en·Burke (General Armory)

Blazon

Quarterly, Ist and 4th, argent a martlet displayed between three quatrefoils, two and one sable on achief of the last as many quatrefoils of the first, for WaxyTE; 2nd and 3rd, gules three crescents argent within a bordure of the last charged with eight roses of the field, a crescent for diff., for MELVILLE

Tinctures

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

Charges

bordure (ordinary)
chef (ordinary)
croissant (meuble)
merlette (meuble)
quartefeuille (meuble)
rose (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "argent",
      "category": "metal"
    },
    "partition": "écartelé",
    "sub_fields": [
      {
        "charges": [
          {
            "name": "merlette",
            "count": 1,
            "category": "meuble",
            "attitudes": [
              "éployé"
            ]
          },
          {
            "name": "quartefeuille",
            "count": 3,
            "category": "meuble",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "sable",
              "category": "colour"
            }
          },
          {
            "name": "chef",
            "count": 1,
            "category": "ordinary",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "du dernier",
              "category": "",
              "reference": "du dernier"
            }
          },
          {
            "name": "quartefeuille",
            "count": 1,
            "category": "meuble",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "du premier",
              "category": "",
              "reference": "du premier"
            }
          }
        ],
        "tincture": {
          "name": "argent",
          "category": "metal"
        },
        "positions": [
          "1",
          "4"
        ]
      },
      {
        "charges": [
          {
            "name": "croissant",
            "count": 3,
            "category": "meuble",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "argent",
              "category": "metal"
            }
          },
          {
            "name": "bordure",
            "count": 1,
            "category": "ordinary",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "du dernier",
              "category": "",
              "reference": "du dernier"
            }
          },
          {
            "name": "rose",
            "count": 8,
            "category": "meuble",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "du champ",
              "category": "",
              "reference": "du champ"
            }
          },
          {
            "name": "croissant",
            "count": 1,
            "category": "meuble"
          }
        ],
        "tincture": {
          "name": "gueules",
          "category": "colour"
        },
        "positions": [
          "2",
          "3"
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "is_compound": true
}

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