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coquille

Fully parsed

du Bois

family·NL·strict·Clemmensen (Ordinary of Medieval Armorials)

De gueules semé de coquilles d'argent.

Original entry: semy of escallops · G A · Hainaut · 1380

Blazon written automatically by Enquerre from the coded entry of Steen Clemmensen’s public database, Ordinary of Medieval Armorials (v2.1, 2020), used with the author’s permission. armorial.dk

Other names

Also called
Bois, Bois de Hove

In medieval armorials

  • Urfé (1380) no. 2016 “celui du bos, de gueles seme de coquilles d argent, et crie le bos a tout les coquilles de le terre d enghien”

Tinctures

argent (charge)
gueules (field)

Charges

coquille (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "gueules",
      "category": "colour"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "coquille",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "argent",
        "category": "metal"
      },
      "attitudes": [
        "semé"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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