Lance tip

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Lance tip

The lance tip , also called otelle (s) or lance wing in heraldry , is a common figure in heraldry .

Is shown in the coat of arms a differently colored coat of arms for color almond-like motif. The motif consists of four small areas juxtaposed with Andreas cross . Silver and gold are preferred as tinctures . The option of half-page representation (two on the right or two on the left or two above and below) is less common in the coat of arms. This representation must be described accordingly .

The term Otelle is borrowed from the Gallic language and means peeled almond.

See also

literature

  • Otelles in the Heraldry Wiki
  • Ferdinand Leopold Carl Biedenfeld: The Heraldry, or popular textbook of heraldry. Verlag Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, Weimar 1846, p. 46 and Fig. 409.

Individual evidence

  1. Stéphanie Félicité de Genlis : The botany of history and literature or the plants in their mythological, religious, civic, symbolic, superstitious, proverbial, literary, aesthetic and historical relationships. Part 1. Josef Anton Goebhardt, Bamberg et al. 1813, p. 122 .

Web links

Commons : Spearhead  - Collection of images, videos, and audio files
Wiktionary: Lanzenspitze  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations