The handbook of heraldry : with instructions for tracing pedigrees and deciphering ancient mss., also, rules for the appointment of liveries, etc. etc. (1869)
Cussans, John Edwin, 1837-1899 · London : Chatto and Windus · leaf 61
the Bend are theBendlet, or Garter, which is half the width ofthe Bend; the Cost, or Gotice, which is halfthe Bendlet; and the Riband, half of theCost. Costs never appear alone in a shield;they are generally borne in couples, with aBend, Fess, or other charge between them;which charge is then said… … in the opposite direction, viz., from the sin-ister chief to the dexter base. The diminutives of the Bend-sinister arethe Scarpe, which is one-half its width, andthe Bdton, which is one-fourth. The latter,like the Eiband, is couped at the extremities,and both are generally considered as marksof…
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