Pyramid trains

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Pyramid trains , also known as three-pointed train or pointed train , are several long pointed triangles in heraldry that extend at least to the center of the coat of arms or beyond. It is a herald's picture that differs from the top by the number greater than one . The term is out of date. Whether the triangle emerges from the right or left edge of the shield or from the base of the shield is named in the description of the coat of arms by tapering right or left or tapering upwards . Similar to the blazon when triangles meet with the tips or emerge from a corner of the coat of arms.

In more recent heraldry, it is described with a wedge or point in the number and direction indicated.

See also

literature

  • Pierer's Universal Lexicon . Volume 13, Altenburg 1861, p. 716.
  • Carl Günther Ludovici: Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts. Johann Heinrich Zedler, Leipzig / Halle 1741, p. 1804.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johann-Friedrich Heigelin: General Foreign Words Manual, for Teutsche, where instructions are given for understanding, separating and appreciating the strange words, expressions, names and idioms that occur in German scripts and in art and colloquial language. CF Osiandersche Buchhandlung, Tübingen 1819, p. 376.