On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Ree Moorhead Pruehs wrote:
> >>> 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>
::blinks, picturing said device, and winces:: Dare I ask (if you know)
what the colors were? That just sounds painful!
Typheinne de La Croix
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