An Explanation of difficult Words used in Herauldry.
- A.
- ARgent. White
- Azure. Blue
- Annulet. A Ring of a Maile Coat
Caliope's cabinet opened wherein gentlemen may be informed how to adorn themselves for funerals, feastings, and other heroick meetings : also, here they may know their place and worth with all the degrees and distinctions of honour in the realm, shewing how every one ought to take place with the titles due to them, with other things of antiquity very observable / by James Salter.
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- Caliope's cabinet opened wherein gentlemen may be informed how to adorn themselves for funerals, feastings, and other heroick meetings : also, here they may know their place and worth with all the degrees and distinctions of honour in the realm, shewing how every one ought to take place with the titles due to them, with other things of antiquity very observable / by James Salter.
- Author
- Salter, James, fl. 1665.
- Publication
- London :: Printed by G.M. for Will. Crooke ...,
- 1665.
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- Subject terms
- Etiquette -- England -- Early works to 1800.
- Etiquette -- Early works to 1800.
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"Caliope's cabinet opened wherein gentlemen may be informed how to adorn themselves for funerals, feastings, and other heroick meetings : also, here they may know their place and worth with all the degrees and distinctions of honour in the realm, shewing how every one ought to take place with the titles due to them, with other things of antiquity very observable / by James Salter." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A60887.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.
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Page 55
- B.
- Blazoning. Expressing
- Bevile. Broken, or a Carpenters Square mo∣ving upon a Joynt
- Billet. A piece of paper folded like a Letter
- ...Battone.
- C.
- Cheveron. A Barge couple.
- Cost. A Rib
- Canton. A Corner
- Cheque. Composition
- Crenelle. Dented or notched
- Chaplet. A Garland
- Componed. Compounded
- Couped. Cut off
- D.
- Dance. Dented or notched more deep.
- Delf. A pit or den.
- Displayed. Wings abroad.
- E.
- Eschucheon. A Shield
- Erased. Rended, or torn
- Ean. Water.
- F.
- Fesse. A Girdle
- Fillet. That which women wear in making up their hair,
- Flasque. A Bow bent
- Files. Plaits of Garments
- Flanch. Flanck of a man.
Page 56
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...
- Fussils. Skins of yarn on slippers
- Forme. Broad
- Fitchee. Sharp to fasten
- Frinbrated. Hemmed
- G.
- Gules. Red
- Gerone. The Lap, or the space between the Thigh, which we call Groine
- Gussets. Belonging to shifts
- Gabonated. Cut in morsels
- Gore. Belonging to womens Smocks
- Gemmews. Twins
- Gutte. Drops
- H.
- Humet. Guillianus calls it a Table. Foswel a Coffin
- I.
- Invected. Carried in
- Ingrailed. Entred or gone in
- Indented. Full of Teeth.
- L.
- Lambeaux. Plaits of a Garment
- L••rmes. Tears
- M
- Mascle. A marsh of a net
- Mullet. A Meotor or Star
- N.
- Nombrel. The Navel
- Nowed. Folded or knotted
- O.
- Or. Yellow
Page 57
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- Orle. A pillow
- Ogresses. Pellets of Guns
- P.
- Purpure. Much red and a little black
- Pile. A Wedge
- Purflu. A border of Furrs
- Patonce. A Crutch
- Patte. Broad
- Po••x. Pitch
- S.
- Sable. Black
- Sanguine. Of the colour of blood
- Saltire. An instrument to scale Walls
- Shaporne. A Hoad
- Scarpe. A Scarf.
- T.
- Tenne. Red and yellow
- Torteaux. A Cake
- V.
- Vert. Green
- Verday. Of Flowers
- Voider. A Looking-glass
- Versied. Turned up-side down