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Retained is an art expression in heraldry and is used in the description of the coat of arms when the heraldic animal , in particular a heraldic bird, has a differently tinged neck to the rest of the body. The representation of a heraldic animal with a differently colored neck is not common.

Further deviations in the neck of a coat of arms figure can have a collar , i.e. a collar lies around the neck. Examples are representations of the heraldic animal dog . Also ringed around the neck, with a different colored ring around the neck, is a popular modification of a figure in heraldry. This form is not to be confused with a collar. A crown pulled over the neck is called a crowned or crowned neck emblazoned .

  • Red neck and head to the black eagle in field 3

  • neck-crowned swan

  • collared dog

literature

  • General Realencyklopädie, or conversation lexicon for all stands. Volume 2: Cars epha - brown lime. 3rd, completely revised and very enlarged edition. Georg Joseph Manz, Regensburg 1866, p. 434.
  • Gert Oswald : Lexicon of Heraldry. Bibliographical Institute Leipzig 1984.