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small arcs that join together with the points facing outwards or up on a coat of arms

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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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PUNT: It is the most vile, foolish, absurd, palpable, and ridiculous escutcheon that ever this eye survised. — Save you, good monsieur Fastidious.
COR: Silence, good knight; on, on.
SOG: [reads] "Gyrony of eight pieces; azure and gules; between three plates, a chevron engrailed checquy, or, vert, and ermins; on a chief argent, between two ann'lets sable, a boar's head, proper."
CAR: How's that! on a chief argent?
SOG: [reads] "On a chief argent, a boar's head proper, between two annulets sable."

Ben Jonson. Every Man out of His Humour (1600)
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