Wave cut

Heraldic pattern: divided in a wave cut

The wave cut is a heraldic coat of arms cut in wave form. It serves to design the boundary lines of shield divisions , both the basic and the finer structure of the tinging (coloring).

Presentation and meaning

The wave cut is partly without independent meaning, but often in relation to water. Corrugated beams or piles are emblazoned as a river and represent important bodies of water for the guide of the coat of arms. Areas divided by several wave cuts then represent a water surface. The cut then takes on the function of a herald's image . Then elements are often tinged with blue and / or silver.

Formations are the sea wave cut with pointed swell (also corresponds to a thorn cut ), wave cut with overturning waves, and the cloud cut with disc-shaped bulges (which is emblazoned as a feh in German heraldry ), and the double cloud cut (almost heart-shaped). Also edge- / dental section-like forms occur, but are always rounded.

Examples

• Simple wave cut
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  split in a wave cut ( Transtrand  SE)

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  cut diagonally in the wave cut (diagonally right, standard Barkåkra  SE )

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  split obliquely to the left in a wave cut ( Beuron  DE)

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  Pedestrian , corrugated ( St-Étienne- lès-Remiremont  FR)

• variants
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  Lowered with sea wave cut divided ( Zell am Moos  AT)

• Further examples
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  three times wavy banded silver and red (Seigneurs de Mortemart, House Rochechouart  FR)

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  divided by blue and gold wavy ( Barbâtre  FR)

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  split by a silver wave rod ( Manning AT )

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  in silver a black diagonal right river ( speaking coat of arms : Schwarzach AT )

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  blue-silver wave shield base (number not specified, blue begins, Lychen  DE )

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  Board , waved ten times in silver and blue ( Schopperten  FR)

Web links

Commons : Wave cuts  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

Commons : Wavy Herald  Pictures - Collection of images, videos, and audio files

Commons : Heraldic representation of waves ia  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ English party per fess wavy, divided like a ribbon wavy '
2. ↑ English party per pale wavy, divided like a pile of waves
3. ↑ English party per bend wavy 'divided into a ribbon / sash-like wavy'
4. ↑ English party per bend sinister wavy, ' ribbon- / sash-like wavy divided from the left'
5. ↑ color-distorted old representation; also: sixfold divided into waves , French Fascé, ondé d'argent et de gueules, de six pièces , modern representations as cloud feh :
6. ↑ French à la bordure burelée ondée d'argent et d'azur de dix pièces