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Drawn from the blazon

chardongerbequintefeuillemerlettemerlettechardongerbequintefeuille

Approximate rendering

blazon partially parsed (method lenient_en)

Houstoun

family·GB·lenient_en·Burke (General Armory)

Blazon

Quarterly, Ist and 4th, argent on a fesse sable between two thistles in chief and a garb in base proper three cinquefoils of the first, for BoswaLL; 2nd and 3rd, or, a chevron chequy sable and argent between three martlets of the second, for Houstoun

Tinctures

argent (charge)
argent (field)
au naturel (charge)
or (field)
sable (charge)
sable (ordinary)

Charges

chardon (meuble)
chevron (ordinary)
fasce (ordinary)
gerbe (meuble)
merlette (meuble)
quintefeuille (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "argent",
      "category": "metal"
    },
    "partition": "écartelé",
    "sub_fields": [
      {
        "charges": [
          {
            "name": "fasce",
            "count": 1,
            "category": "ordinary",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "sable",
              "category": "colour"
            }
          },
          {
            "name": "chardon",
            "count": 2,
            "category": "meuble",
            "attitudes": [
              "en chef"
            ]
          },
          {
            "name": "gerbe",
            "count": 1,
            "category": "meuble",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "au naturel",
              "category": ""
            },
            "attitudes": [
              "en pointe"
            ]
          },
          {
            "name": "quintefeuille",
            "count": 3,
            "category": "meuble",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "du premier",
              "category": "",
              "reference": "du premier"
            }
          }
        ],
        "tincture": {
          "name": "argent",
          "category": "metal"
        },
        "positions": [
          "1",
          "4"
        ]
      },
      {
        "charges": [
          {
            "name": "chevron",
            "count": 1,
            "category": "ordinary",
            "modifiers": [
              {
                "verb": "échiqueté",
                "tincture": {
                  "name": "sable",
                  "category": "colour"
                }
              },
              {
                "verb": "échiqueté",
                "tincture": {
                  "name": "argent",
                  "category": "metal"
                }
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "name": "merlette",
            "count": 3,
            "category": "meuble",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "du second",
              "category": "",
              "reference": "du second"
            }
          }
        ],
        "tincture": {
          "name": "or",
          "category": "metal"
        },
        "positions": [
          "2",
          "3"
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "is_compound": true
}

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