AntonioCiolino / drawshield

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"besom"/"brush" as charge #125

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Please describe your suggested enhancement:
Please provide the above charges.

Can you provide an example blazon?
Azure, two besoms in saltire or.
Argent, three broom-branches vert.
Argent, a chevron between three besoms gules.
Argent, on a chevron azure three brushes of the first.

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Brush: the "block-brush" is perhaps the most important; it represents a bunch 
of the herb called "knee-holm," or sometimes "knee-holly" (the knee-holy of 
monastic, and ruscus of modern botanists), used by butchers to clean their 
blocks, hence called "butcher's broom." It is borne in the insignia of 
Butchers' Company, but has often been drawn as a garbe or wheatsheaf.
  The "besom" is also found mentioned, and a "flat-brush" (such as is used by whitewashers) is borne in the arms of the Plasterers' Company.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by pku...@gmail.com on 1 Jul 2010 at 6:50

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Original comment by KarlWilcox36@gmail.com on 28 Oct 2011 at 10:27