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May 17, 2022 14:50
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Spanish term
cartela
Spanish to English
Art/Literary
Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting
Heraldry
Describing a heraldic shield:
...escudos de alabastro en Aragón y algunos son hermosos ejemplos de interés genealógico e histórico artístico, como el escudo renacentista tratado aquí. Va labrado en relieve sobre alabastro y además de dos tenantes y una cabeza alada timbrándolo, está colocado sobre una cartela. Cuartelado en cruz...,
I doubt the English term "cartouche" would be correct here. The object seems to correspond more to this definition from Academia dictionary;
Heráld. Cada una de las piezas heráldicas ordinarias, pequeñas y de forma rectangular, que se ponen verticalmente y en serie en la parte superior del escudo.
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Donald
...escudos de alabastro en Aragón y algunos son hermosos ejemplos de interés genealógico e histórico artístico, como el escudo renacentista tratado aquí. Va labrado en relieve sobre alabastro y además de dos tenantes y una cabeza alada timbrándolo, está colocado sobre una cartela. Cuartelado en cruz...,
I doubt the English term "cartouche" would be correct here. The object seems to correspond more to this definition from Academia dictionary;
Heráld. Cada una de las piezas heráldicas ordinarias, pequeñas y de forma rectangular, que se ponen verticalmente y en serie en la parte superior del escudo.
Thank you.
Donald
Proposed translations
(English)
1 +2 | billet | Taña Dalglish |
5 | billet | Peter Guest |
2 | gusset | Liliana Garfunkel |
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May 19, 2022 20:48: Taña Dalglish Created KOG entry
Proposed translations
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billet
Heraldry has its own technical language in English, with its own names for all sorts of things. (For example, the color red is called "gules"; a 5-pointed star is called a "mullet", and so on.) The exact English heraldic equivalent of the Spanish heraldic cartela is a "billet". That being said, you will not find one person in a thousand who knows what a heraldic "billet" is. Nevertheless, you might translate this as "Even today, in the arches one can see shields charged with billets." https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/cartela-heraldica.14...
The billet is a rectangle, usually at least twice as tall as it is wide; it may represent a block of wood or a sheet of paper. Billets appear in the shield of the house of Nassau, which was modified to become that of the kingdom of the Netherlands. The roundel is a solid circle, frequently of gold (blazoned a bezant).
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Billets_in_heral...
https://mseffie.com/handouts/heraldry/background.html
Superimposed on the field are the charges. The most common charges are called ordinaries, basic geometric bands of color such as the fess (a horizontal band across the central third of the field), the chief (a band across the top), the pale (a vertical band down the central third), the bend (a wide diagonal band), the bar (a horizontal band one-fifth the depth of the shield), and the chevron (an inverted V). Also called ordinaries -- or by some experts, subordinaries -- are such less-common shapes as the cross, the saltire (a diagonal cross), the pile (a triangular wedge from the top), ****the billet (a small rectangle)****, the bordure (a narrow border), the orle (a border set in from the edge), and the inescutcheon (an inner shieldlike shape), among many others. Many of these charges appear in multiple and diminutive form, in which case they are called barry, bendy, paly, or by the appropriate plural form.
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Billets
The billet a simple rectangular shape in the centre of a shield, which does not however usually appear alone as a charge. It was meant to represent a folded letter, and therefore suggested loyalty, trust, credibility and faith.
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The billet is a rectangle, usually at least twice as tall as it is wide; it may represent a block of wood or a sheet of paper. Billets appear in the shield of the house of Nassau, which was modified to become that of the kingdom of the Netherlands. The roundel is a solid circle, frequently of gold (blazoned a bezant).
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Billets_in_heral...
https://mseffie.com/handouts/heraldry/background.html
Superimposed on the field are the charges. The most common charges are called ordinaries, basic geometric bands of color such as the fess (a horizontal band across the central third of the field), the chief (a band across the top), the pale (a vertical band down the central third), the bend (a wide diagonal band), the bar (a horizontal band one-fifth the depth of the shield), and the chevron (an inverted V). Also called ordinaries -- or by some experts, subordinaries -- are such less-common shapes as the cross, the saltire (a diagonal cross), the pile (a triangular wedge from the top), ****the billet (a small rectangle)****, the bordure (a narrow border), the orle (a border set in from the edge), and the inescutcheon (an inner shieldlike shape), among many others. Many of these charges appear in multiple and diminutive form, in which case they are called barry, bendy, paly, or by the appropriate plural form.
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glossary - MyBlazon.com | Learn about heraldry symbols with ...https://myblazon.com › heraldry › glossary
Billets
The billet a simple rectangular shape in the centre of a shield, which does not however usually appear alone as a charge. It was meant to represent a folded letter, and therefore suggested loyalty, trust, credibility and faith.
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billet
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gusset
cartela
Pieza de hierro que sostiene los balcones cuando no tienen repisa de albañilería.
Gusset
(machinery) A kind of bracket, or angular piece of iron, fastened in the angles of a structure to give strength or stiffness; especially, the part joining the barrel and the fire box of a locomotive boiler.
(heraldry) An abatement or mark of dishonor in a coat of arms, resembling a gusset.
Pieza de hierro que sostiene los balcones cuando no tienen repisa de albañilería.
Gusset
(machinery) A kind of bracket, or angular piece of iron, fastened in the angles of a structure to give strength or stiffness; especially, the part joining the barrel and the fire box of a locomotive boiler.
(heraldry) An abatement or mark of dishonor in a coat of arms, resembling a gusset.
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