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And the term would come originally from goat horns?
DW
Christopher Crockett wrote:
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> From: Henk 't Jong <[log in to unmask]>
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>> As a heraldist might I suggest an alternative name for the zigzag pattern?
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> sure.
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> Talk is Cheap.
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>> In heraldry the term for a single broken bar is indeed 'chevron' (French and
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> English). A shield containing an even number of chevrons is called to be
> 'chevronny'. In this the chevrons are placed vertically above eachother, not
> next to eachother. If that is the case it's called 'dancetty'
>
> sounds reasonable.
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> Art Hysterians might call them "nested chevrons," which has the advantage of
> sounding more domestic and less frivolous.
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>> and if there are more rows of these dancetty chevrons it's called
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> 'barry-dancetty'.
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> obviously.
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>> So, a single row of zigzags, say around a doorway, would then be called a
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> dancetty row.
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> if you wanted no one save for heraldists to know what the hell you were
> talking about, you *could* do that, certainly.
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>> A pillar completely covered with zigzags would be a barry-dancetty
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> pillar.
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> doesn't sound all that structurally sound to me, Henk.
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>> And all pefectly in period, because these names date back to at least the mid
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> to late 12th c.
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> and are virtually unknown in the early 21st.
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>
> say, what do "chevrons" signify, in a heraldry context?
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> not "he who has traveled through portals," i trust.
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> c
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>
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