[MR] [AtlantianHeralds] Heraldic Term of the Day - bezant

[Beverly Robinson-Curry]

This was the one for Friday.

 

 

>From _An Heraldic Alphabet_ by J.P. Brooke-Little

 

"Bezant - Term applied to a roundel when it is gold.  As bezants were
originally gold coins most textbooks state that they should not be shaded to
show relief but they sometimes are and I doubt whether any great solecism is
committed.  The term "talent" means a bezant but is seldom, if ever, used."

 

Bonus points.  Who can tell us the names assigned to the other tinctures of
roundels?

 

 

Rhiannon

 

Mistress Rhiannon ui Neill

Triton Principal Herald

House Corvus, Atlantia