Category:Division lines and pales

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Bars, Bends and pales

The most common divisions are by a horizontal, vertical or diagonal bar :

Bars

	Golden bar Silver bar Blue bar Red bar Green bar Black bar Orange bar Purple bar	Ermine bar Checquered bar Walled or bricked bar Silver bar on red for Austria	Horizontally divided bicoloured bar Vertically divided bicoloured bar
	Golden wavy bar Silver wavy bar Blue wavy bar Red wavy bar Green wavy bar Black wavy bar Wavy bar with three colours	Blue and silver wavy bar Blue and gold wavy bar Green and silver wavy bar Green and gold wavy bar Red and silver wavy bar Red and gold wavy bar

Special bars

Engrailed bar of any colour	Invected bar of any colour	Nebuly bar of any colour	Dancetty bar of any colour	Indented bar of any colour
Embattled bar of any colour	Embattled Counter-Embattled bar of any colour	Bretessed bar of any colour	Dovetailed bar of any colour	Potenty bar of any colour
Urdy bar of any colour	Raguly bar of any colour	Raguly Counter-Raguly bar of any colour	Rayonné bar of any colour	Fir trees bar of any colour
Fir twig bar of any colour	Cotised bar of any colour

Barry

A shield divided into multiple bars regardless the number of bars. Named after the top colour. Officially an even number is "colour yy with xx bars", an odd number is "barry of xx and yy'. As this is not known by most people, these two categories are combined here.

Barry wavy

A shield divided into multiple wavy bars regardless the number of bars. Named after the top colour.

For barry wavy chiefs and bases, see here.

Pales

Checquered pale

Paly

A shield divided into multiple pales regardless the number. Named after the most (heraldic right) colour.

Bend

Bend sinister

Bend sinister wavy

Bendy

A shield divided into multiple bars regardless the number of bends. Named after the top colour (smallest colour in the top).

Bendy sinister

A shield divided into multiple bars regardless the number of bends. Named after the top colour (smallest colour in the top).

Bendy wavy

A shield divided into multiple wavy bends regardless the number of bars. Named after the top colour (smallest colour in the top).

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Gold and red

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