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Dictionary of Vexillology: A (Aqua - Argent)

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AQUA
A heraldic term for the colour of water - see ‘proper’.

tincture


AQUILA
See ‘eagle 1)’.

aquila
Aquila/Eagle Standard of a Roman Legion (about.com)


AQUILIFER
A bearer of the ancient Roman legionary eagle - see 'eagle 1)' (also 'vexillary' and 'vexilloid').

aquilifer
Aquilifer (Wikipedia)


ARAB LIBERATION COLOURS (or COLORS)
1) A term used for the predominantly red white and black colours introduced by Egypt in their flag of 1958 – the colours of Arab liberation – but see note below.
2) See ‘pan-Arab colours’.

Arab liberation colours Arab liberation colours Arab liberation colours
National Flag of Egypt 1958 – 1972 (fotw); National Flag of Egypt (fotw); National Flag of the Yemen (fotw)

Please note that the red, white and black (with or without a touch of green) introduced by Egypt in their tricolour of 1958 are included by some sources with the pan Arab Colours as referenced above.


ARAB REVOLT FLAG
That flag which inspired the pan-Arab colours, a sharifian flag – see ‘pan-Arab colours’ and their following notes.

Arab Revolt Flag
Arab Revolt Flag 1917-1920 (fotw)


ARCH-DUCAL CORONET (or HAT)
See ‘coronet 2)’.

archducal bonnet archducal bonnet archducal bonnet
Arms and Flag of Wallachia c1640; Arms of Salzburg, Austria (fotw)


ARCHED
The heraldic term sometimes used in place of embowed when describing an ordinary that is bowed or bent – enarched - see ‘embowed’ (also ‘ordinary’).

arched arched
Arms and Flag of Austrheim, Norway (fotw)


ARCHIEPISCOPAL CROSS
A heraldic term for the cross of Lorraine - see ‘cross of Lorraine’.

Sarreguemines, France Małogoszcz, Poland
Flag of Sarreguemines, France (fotw); Flag of Małogoszcz, Poland (fotw)


ARCHIVEXILLIFER
An honorary title, now obsolete, for the chief standard or flag bearer to the emperors of the Holy Roman Empire (see also the note following ‘archivexillum’), and ‘gonfaloniership’).

ARCHIVEXILLUM
See ‘template flag’.

[archivexillum example] [archivexillum example] [archivexillum example]
UK Blue Ensign (fotw); Government Service Ensign, UK (fotw); Flag of the Department of Trade and Industry, UK (fotw)

Please note that the word appears in a 19th Century German etymological dictionary as the origin of the term erzbanner (that may be translated as chief or imperial banner) but – with the exception of a possible relationship to the term archivexillifer - this is otherwise unsupported by further sources – see ‘archivexillifer’.


ARDENT
An alternative heraldic term to inflamed - see 'inflamed'.

[Velika Ludina] [Velika Ludina]
Flag and Arms of Velika Ludina, Croatia (fotw)


ARGENT
A heraldic term for the metal silver that is generally shown as white in flags - but see note below (also 'embroider', 'metals', 'or', and 'rule of tincture').

[colour example]

Please note that Argent is occasionally seen as grey, sometimes as silver leaf or metallic paint, or in an embroidered design, as silver thread


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