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navirecroisettepélicanmaindaguetêtequintefeuilletêtequintefeuillenavirecroisettepélicanmaindague

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blazon partially parsed (method lenient_en)

Gillespie-Stainton

family·GB·lenient_en·Burke (General Armory)

Blazon

Quarterly, Ist and 4th, azure a three-masted ship, sails furled and flags flying in chief, a crosslet fitchée between a pelican in her piety, and a dexter arm fessways couped below the elbows, the hand holding a dagger erect all proper, for GILLESPIE; 2nd and 3rd, azure on a chey.argent between three boars' heads erased of the second, as many cinquefoils of the first, for Stainton

Tinctures

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

Charges

chevron (ordinary)
croisette (meuble)
dague (meuble)
main (meuble)
navire (meuble)
pélican (meuble)
quintefeuille (meuble)
sanglier (meuble)
tête (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "azur",
      "category": "colour"
    },
    "partition": "écartelé",
    "sub_fields": [
      {
        "charges": [
          {
            "name": "navire",
            "count": 3,
            "category": "meuble"
          },
          {
            "name": "croisette",
            "count": 1,
            "category": "meuble",
            "attitudes": [
              "au pied fiché"
            ]
          },
          {
            "name": "pélican",
            "count": 1,
            "category": "meuble"
          },
          {
            "name": "main",
            "count": 1,
            "category": "meuble"
          },
          {
            "name": "dague",
            "count": 1,
            "category": "meuble",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "au naturel",
              "category": ""
            }
          }
        ],
        "tincture": {
          "name": "azur",
          "category": "colour"
        },
        "positions": [
          "1",
          "4"
        ]
      },
      {
        "charges": [
          {
            "name": "chevron",
            "count": 1,
            "category": "ordinary",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "argent",
              "category": "metal"
            }
          },
          {
            "name": "tête",
            "count": 3,
            "detail": "sanglier",
            "category": "meuble",
            "attitudes": [
              "arraché"
            ],
            "modifiers": [
              {
                "verb": "arraché",
                "tincture": {
                  "name": "du second",
                  "category": "",
                  "reference": "du second"
                }
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "name": "quintefeuille",
            "count": 3,
            "category": "meuble",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "du premier",
              "category": "",
              "reference": "du premier"
            }
          }
        ],
        "tincture": {
          "name": "azur",
          "category": "colour"
        },
        "positions": [
          "2",
          "3"
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "is_compound": true
}

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