bendlet

English

Etymology

From bend +‎ -let.

Noun

bendlet (plural bendlets)

  1. (heraldry) A diminutive of the bend, of the same shape, but only half the width of the bend.
    • 1956 July, Col. H. C. B. Rogers, “Railway Heraldry”, in Railway Magazine, page 479:
      The shield was silver, charged with a red cross voided (that is, with the centre cut out and only the edges left), between in chief (that is, above the horizontal limb of the cross) two black dragon's wings, and in base two red daggers, and in the centre of the cross a black winged helmet; on a red chief (a broad band across the top of the shield), a silver pale (a broad vertical band), and thereon eight black arrows crossed X-wise, four and four, and encircled with a black band, between on the dexter three bendlets (narrow bands slanting from dexter chief to sinister base) enhanced (that is, raised above the centre), and on the sinister a fleur-de-lis, all of gold.
    Coordinate terms: cost, garter, riband

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References

  • The Manual of Heraldry, Fifth Edition, by Anonymous, London, 1862, online at [1]
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