[Mid] Things to give heralds headaches...

>>> Define "gyrony," please.
>>
>> Ok, so I can't spell... never took French, anyway...
>><grumble, grumble>
>> It's the swirly background, like a pinwheel.
>
>Actually, that's "gyronny arrondy" (the 'arrondy' indicates that the
>lines curve, instead of being straight). 'Gyronny' indicates that the
>background is divided into multiple equal sections, typically 8 but as
>few as six or as many as 16 (more is probably possible, at least in
>modern mundane heraldry). Think of the way a pizza (traditional, not
>Sicilian) is cut up.

Baron Master Foscadh once told me about a friend of his -- sorry, I can't
remember who the gentle was, offhand -- whose registered device consisted
of a seven-pointed star superimposed over a gyronny of eight...
From: Ree Moorhead Pruehs <rpruehs@ismi.net>
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Received on Sun Jan 4 22:47:33 1998