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blazon partially parsed (method lenient_en)
Skene
family·GB·lenient_en·Burke (General Armory)
Blazon
Gules three skenes, or daggers, paleways in fess argent hilted and pommelled or, on the point of each a wolf's head couped of the third—'' Some," we quote Sir George Mackenzie, ''derive their names as well as their arms from some considerable action, and thus a second son of Struan Roperrson, for killing a wolf in Stocket Forest, by a dirk in the king's presence, got the name of SKENE, which signifies a dirk in Irish, and three dirk points in pale for his arms."
Tinctures
gueules (field)
or (charge)
Charges
dague (meuble)
loup (meuble)
tête (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
"field": {
"tincture": {
"name": "gueules",
"category": "colour"
}
},
"charges": [
{
"name": "dague",
"count": 1,
"category": "meuble",
"attitudes": [
"en fasce",
"garni"
],
"modifiers": [
{
"verb": "garni",
"tincture": {
"name": "or",
"category": "metal"
}
}
]
},
{
"name": "tête",
"count": 1,
"detail": "loup",
"category": "meuble",
"tincture": {
"name": "du troisième",
"category": "",
"reference": "du troisième"
}
},
{
"name": "loup",
"count": 1,
"category": "meuble"
}
]
}Source : Burke (General Armory)