Quarterly Dove-Tailed

“Quarterly per pale dove-tailed, or and gules. DOVETAILED. A term borrowed from carpentry to show tinctures joined together by reversed wedges, which, being shaped like doves’ tails, are by joiners called dovetailing.” -Hall, 1862

Keywords

shield, OR, heraldry, coat of arms, gules, line, Division, escutcheon, ordinary, dove-tailed, quarterly per pale, reversed wedges, dovetailing, joining

Galleries

Heraldry, Ordinaries

Source

Hall, Arthur The Manual of Heraldry (London, England: J. S. Virtue & Co., 1862)

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