Canadian Heraldic Dictionary

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Term Source Meaning Illustration
Fan Wilgress A Canadian term for a display of feathers – a variant of the more traditional plume (in British heraldry, the term fan usually refers to a winnowing-fan).
Flotant Gary A. Mitchell The term flotant (usually reserved in British blazon to a charge floating in the air), has been used in Canadian practice to apply to a creature – such as the otter shown here – floating on its back in water.
Foil St. Paul's Cathedral, Regina The blazon of the arms notes "foils of poplar " as being on the bordure. Here the word foil has been coined to refer to the outline or shape of a stemmed leaf, without veins or other features, on the same principle as the terms trefoil and cinquefoil, which refer to multi-lobed leaves (Latin folium). The shape, as indicated, is that of a poplar leaf.

 
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Released: November 18, 2008 / Last modified: November 27, 2009