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croisettecroissantfuséetêtehommecœurtêtearbreépéecouronnetêtetêtetêteétoilecorboucle

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blazon partially parsed (method lenient_en)

Forbes-Leith of Fyvie

family·GB·lenient_en·Fox-Davies (Armorial Families)

Quarterly, first, or, atcruss crosslet fitchée sable between three crescents in chief and as many fusils in base gules (for Leith); second, quarterly, 1 and 4, azure, on a chevron between three bears’ heads couped argent muzzled gules, a man’s heart proper between two skenes of the first, pommelled or (for Forbes of Balfluig) ; 2, azure, a fess chequy argent and of the first between three boars’ heads erased or within a bordure indented of the second (for Gordon of Badenscoth); 3, argent, a fir-tree growing out of a mount in base vert, surmounted of a sword in bend supporting on its point an imperial Crown proper, in sinister chief and dexter base a lion's head erased azure, armed and langued gules (for Gregory); third grand-quarter, parted per fess azure and argent, in chief three bears’ heads couped of the second muzzled gules, and in base as many unicorns’ heads erased sable (for Forbes of Ballogie) ; fourth grand-quarter, argent, on a bend gules between two mullets in chief and in base a hunting-horn sable stringed of the second, three buckles or (for Burn).

Tinctures

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

Charges

arbre (meuble)
bande (ordinary)
bordure (ordinary)
3× boucle (meuble)
chef (ordinary)
chevron (ordinary)
cœur (meuble)
cor (meuble)
couronne (meuble)
croisette (meuble)
3× croissant (meuble)
épée (meuble)
2× étoile (meuble)
fasce (ordinary)
3× fusée (meuble)
homme (meuble)
3× licorne (meuble)
lion (meuble)
mont (meuble)
3× ours (meuble)
3× sanglier (meuble)
3× tête (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "or",
      "category": "metal"
    },
    "partition": "écartelé"
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "croisette",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "sable",
        "category": "colour"
      },
      "attitudes": [
        "au pied fiché"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "croissant",
      "count": 3,
      "category": "meuble",
      "attitudes": [
        "en chef"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "fusée",
      "count": 3,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "gueules",
        "category": "colour"
      },
      "attitudes": [
        "en pointe"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "chevron",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary"
    },
    {
      "name": "tête",
      "count": 3,
      "detail": "ours",
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "argent",
        "category": "metal"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "homme",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "meuble"
    },
    {
      "name": "cœur",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "au naturel",
        "category": ""
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "fasce",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "argent",
        "category": "metal"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "tête",
      "count": 3,
      "detail": "sanglier",
      "category": "meuble",
      "attitudes": [
        "arraché"
      ],
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "arraché",
          "tincture": {
            "name": "or",
            "category": "metal"
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "bordure",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "du second",
        "category": "",
        "reference": "du second"
      },
      "attitudes": [
        "denché"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "arbre",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "meuble"
    },
    {
      "name": "mont",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "sinople",
        "category": "colour"
      },
      "attitudes": [
        "en pointe"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "épée",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "meuble",
      "attitudes": [
        "en bande"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "couronne",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "au naturel",
        "category": ""
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "chef",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary"
    },
    {
      "name": "tête",
      "count": 1,
      "detail": "lion",
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "azur",
        "category": "colour"
      },
      "attitudes": [
        "armé",
        "lampassé",
        "arraché"
      ],
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "armé",
          "tincture": {
            "name": "gueules",
            "category": "colour"
          }
        },
        {
          "verb": "lampassé",
          "tincture": {
            "name": "gueules",
            "category": "colour"
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "tête",
      "count": 3,
      "detail": "ours",
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "du second",
        "category": "",
        "reference": "du second"
      },
      "attitudes": [
        "en chef"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "tête",
      "count": 3,
      "detail": "licorne",
      "category": "meuble",
      "attitudes": [
        "en pointe",
        "arraché"
      ],
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "arraché",
          "tincture": {
            "name": "sable",
            "category": "colour"
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "bande",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "gueules",
        "category": "colour"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "étoile",
      "count": 2,
      "category": "meuble",
      "attitudes": [
        "en chef"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "cor",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "sable",
        "category": "colour"
      },
      "attitudes": [
        "lié"
      ],
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "lié",
          "tincture": {
            "name": "du second",
            "category": "",
            "reference": "du second"
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "boucle",
      "count": 3,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "or",
        "category": "metal"
      }
    }
  ],
  "is_compound": true
}

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