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Drawing heraldic shields from blazons - Automatically exported from:
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"broom-branch" as charge #140

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Please describe your suggested enhancement:
Please provide the above as charge

Can you provide an example blazon?
Argent, three broom-branches vert.
Azure, a hand erect between three broomslips proper.
Vert, semy of broomslips, and over all a lion rampant or.

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"Broom:" common wild shrub of this name is the Cytisus scoparius of botanists, 
the Planta-genista of old writers. A sprig of this shrub was chosen as the 
badge of the royal house of Plantagenet, who are said to have derived their 
surname from the circumstance of one of their ancestors having worn a branch of 
broom is his helmet, either by way of penance, or in token of humility, of 
which the broom is a symbol. It appears on the Great Seals of Ric. I.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by pku...@gmail.com on 1 Jul 2010 at 11:57

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by KarlWilcox36@gmail.com on 28 Oct 2011 at 10:36