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The correct blazon, I believe, would be: Or, an eagle double-headed, displayed sable, dimidiated, and impaling gu. a key in pale argent, the wards in chief, and turned to the sinister; the shield surmounted with a marquis 'coronet.
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Church, Oxon, the burial-place of the Harcourt family, is a circular slab of blue marble in the pavement, in which is inlaid a shield of brass bearing the arms of Harcourt, -- two bars, dimidiated with those of Beke; the latter, when entire, forming a cros ancrée.
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With regard to the former shield, I may just remark, that the dimidiated coat is merely that of the German empire.
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Here the French king's coat is cut in half, so that the lily in the base point is _dimidiated_; and the queen's coat, being quarterly France and England, shows two quarters only; England in chief, France in base.
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Harcourt, two bars, is dimidiated, and meets Beke, a cross moline or ancrée.
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If he turn to Anderson's _Diplomata Scotiæ_ (p. 164. and 90.), he will find that Mary Queen of Scots bore the arms of France dimidiated with those of
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It is to be observed that _Bordures_ and _Tressures_, which are not affected by Quartering, are _dimidiated by Impalement_, -- that is, that side of both a Bordure and a Tressure which adjoins the line of
The Handbook to English Heraldry Charles Boutell 1844
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Sussex Cinque Ports, which bears _England_ dimidiating _azure, three hulls of ships, in pale, or_: here the dimidiated lions and ships appear to unite for the purpose of forming the most extravagant of compound monsters.
The Handbook to English Heraldry Charles Boutell 1844
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This Shield, represented in No. 328, has both the bordure on its dexter half, and the tressure on its sinister half, dimidiated by the impalement.
The Handbook to English Heraldry Charles Boutell 1844
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: _A Thistle: a Thistle and Rose dimidiated and crowned_, No. 308, with the motto -- “_Beati Pacifici_” (Blessed are the peacemakers).
The Handbook to English Heraldry Charles Boutell 1844
yarb commented on the word dimidiated
...those blank ads where limited little employees dimly dimidiated by more fortunate shoulders, but still asserting themselves, still smile in the process of humble dissolve.
- Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor
June 4, 2008