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15 heraldric terms

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dancetté

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Definition:
a zig-zag pattern on a coat of arms. "indented" is a variation with a tighter pattern.

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image 3: image: Arthur Charles Fox-Davies. A Complete Guide to Heraldry (1909)

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Charlie Brown wears a fess dancetté sable on a field or shirt. (I think I got that right)
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On the scutcheon we'll have a bend or in the dexter base, a saltire murrey in the fess, with a dog, couchant, for common charge, and under his foot a chain embattled, for slavery, with a chevron vert in a chief engrailed, and three invected lines on a field azure, with the nombril points rampant on a dancette indented; crest, a runaway nigger, sable, with his bundle over his shoulder on a bar sinister; and a couple of gules for supporters, which is you and me; motto, Maggiore Fretta, Minore Otto. Got it out of a book—means the more haste the less speed."

Mark Twain. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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