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Inglese
croce (dizionario)
PO:CRU (cifrante)
the plainest form has been already given as an ordinary. This form, with many of the following, may be drawn with all the lines of division, as engrailed, raguly, etc; and also couped, voided, parted, etc.
The following list comprises the forms commonly used in English Heraldry:
- Cross Avellane
- Cross-crosslet
- Cross-crosslet crossed
- Cross crossed
- Cross degraded and conjoined
- Cross patée or Cross formée
- Cross potent
- Cross bourdonnée or pomel
- Cross bottonnée
- Cross pointed or Cross urdée
- Cross clechée
- Cross moline
- Cross patonce
- Cross fleury
- Cross fourchée
- Cross miller
- Cross Maltese
- Cross of four ermine spots
- Cross Tau or Cross of St, Anthony
- Cross Patriarchal
- Cross Calvary
- Cross voided
- Cross raguly
E003 - Elements of heraldry, di William H. Whitmore - edito a New York nel 1866
which admits of two forms - the cross proper or St. George's cross placed in the usual direction, and the St. Andrew's cross placed transversely, and denominated in heraldry the saltire (sautoir), from its resemblance to the vaulting bars used in horsemanship -
E008 - Heraldry, english and foreign di William H. Whitmore - edito a New York nel 1896