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Handbook of heraldry, with instructions for tracing pedigrees and deciphering ancient mss., rules for the appointment of liveries, &c. (1893)

Cussans, John Edwin, 1837-1899 · London, Chatto & Windus · leaf 92

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iption,but equally adapted to the use of modern armorists as theformer (fig. 135). In Diapering, everything is left to thetaste of the emblazoner, to adopt such figures as may be agree-able to the eye, without approaching too closely to the formof any Charge, so as to cause it to appear as though… … Fig. 157. Diapered <^iircoat—Gules; thi-ee Clay-ions argent—^xoxn^v;\x\Ao\i in Tewkesbury. When Diapering is employed as a means of ornamenta-tion, particular care should be exercised not to render thecolours too vivid. The Charge, it must be remembered, is

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