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mainépéeserpenttêtecroissanttêteétoileourstêteétoileoursmainépéeserpenttêtecroissant

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Quin

family·lenient_en·Burke (General Armory)

Blazon

Quarterly, 1st and 4th, gules a hand couped below the wrist grasping a sword proper on each side a serpent, tail nowed, the heads respecting each other or, in chieftwo crescents argent, for O'Quin, of Munster; 2nd and 8rd, azure a chevron between three lions' heads erased or, with a mullet for diff., for WynpHAM. The £arl of Dunraven wishing to perpetuate the more ancient arms of his ancestors, the O'Quins, of Munster, obtained from the present Ulster King of Arms the right to bear them, instead of those assigned to his ancestor, THaDYy Quin, Esq., of Adare, by Carney, Ulster, 29 Nov. 1688

Tinctures

argent (charge)
au naturel (charge)
azur (field)
gueules (field)
or (charge)
or (ordinary)

Charges

chevron (ordinary)
croissant (meuble)
épée (meuble)
étoile (meuble)
lion (meuble)
main (meuble)
ours (meuble)
serpent (meuble)
tête (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
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  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "gueules",
      "category": "colour"
    },
    "partition": "écartelé",
    "sub_fields": [
      {
        "charges": [
          {
            "name": "main",
            "count": 1,
            "category": "meuble"
          },
          {
            "name": "épée",
            "count": 1,
            "category": "meuble",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "au naturel",
              "category": ""
            }
          },
          {
            "name": "serpent",
            "count": 1,
            "category": "meuble"
          },
          {
            "name": "tête",
            "count": 1,
            "category": "meuble"
          },
          {
            "name": "croissant",
            "count": 1,
            "category": "meuble",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "argent",
              "category": "metal"
            }
          }
        ],
        "tincture": {
          "name": "gueules",
          "category": "colour"
        },
        "positions": [
          "1",
          "4"
        ]
      },
      {
        "charges": [
          {
            "name": "chevron",
            "count": 1,
            "category": "ordinary",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "or",
              "category": "metal"
            }
          },
          {
            "name": "tête",
            "count": 3,
            "detail": "lion",
            "category": "meuble",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "or",
              "category": "metal"
            },
            "attitudes": [
              "arraché"
            ]
          },
          {
            "name": "étoile",
            "count": 1,
            "category": "meuble"
          },
          {
            "name": "ours",
            "count": 1,
            "category": "meuble"
          }
        ],
        "tincture": {
          "name": "azur",
          "category": "colour"
        },
        "positions": [
          "2",
          "3"
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "is_compound": true
}

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