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 67
62 HANDBOOK OF HERALDRY. … A Cross set on Steps (usually three) is Degraded, or OnDegrees. By a Cross Fimbriated, is implied a Crosshaving around it a narrow Border, which forms an integralpart of the Charge itself; and, in emblazoning, the Fimbria-tion, and not the Cross, must be shaded. The Cross of St.George, and the…
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