hamade
A bar that does not touch the edges of the shield, especially if borne as part of a set of three (which may be of equal length, or have the top bar longer than the bottom one; and may have straight edges, or slanted edges with the base shorter than the top).
Noun
- A bar that does not touch the edges of the shield, especially if borne as part of a set of three (which may be of equal length, or have the top bar longer than the bottom one; and may have straight edges, or slanted edges with the base shorter than the top).
- I said I thought that a hamade consists of three trunked bars, even though the Bigot Roll of 1254 blazons d'Abrichecourt's arms as having 'three hamades.' The writers in the Antiquaries' Journal, however, in addition to...
- It consists of a bar couped at each end, but was originally always borne in threes. There is a dispute as to whether a hamade is properly three couped bars and therefore cannot be borne singly. The adjective humetty...
Origin
From French, derived from the town of La Hamaide (in Belgium).