A treatise on heraldry, British and foreign : with English and French glossaries (1896)
Woodward, John, 1837-1898 · Edinburgh ; London : W. & A.K. Johnston · leaf 222
y. In later times, as we shall see, it wasfurther diminished into a still narrower bend called afilet en barre ; and, later still, this was no longer carriedacross the whole of the shield but was shortened at bothends into the baton-sinister, or the baton peri in barre.PLANCHE, quoting from the…
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