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Dictionary of Vexillology: T (Triangle - Triarched Triangular Shield)

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TRIANGLE
TRIANGLE THROUGHOUT
TRIANGLE VOIDED
TRIANGULAR (or TRIANGLE) BORDER
TRIANGULAR-ENDED
TRIANGULAR-ENDED (or TRIANGULARLY ENDING) TAILS
TRIANGULAR PANEL
TRIANGULAR SWALLOWTAIL
TRIANGULAR-TONGUED (or TAILED)
TRIARCHED TRIANGULAR SHIELD

TRIANGLE

1) A horizontal charge whose apex lies along the meridian, and which may extend up to or slightly exceeding one-half the length of a flag, but whose base generally (but not exclusively) occupies the full width of the hoist – a simple or hoist-triangle (see also ‘chevron 1)’ and ‘meridian’)
2) A charge whose base is parallel to the lower edge of a flag - an ‘upright triangle’ or a cone (see also ‘voided triangle’).

National flag of Djibouti (fotw); Air Force Ensign of Jordan (fotw); Flag of Cercs, Spain (fotw); National Flag of St. Lucia (fotw)

Notes
a) With regard to 1) when the base is on the fly it may be called a reversed or fly-triangle
b) Regarding 2) an upright triangle whose base faces the top of a flag is inverted, however:
c) A triangle whose apex and base touch opposite edges of the flag should be considered a pile (see ‘pile’).

Flag of Železniki, Slovenia (fotw)

TRIANGLE THROUGHOUT

See ‘pile 1)’ (also ‘throughout’).

Flag of Carrión de los Céspedes, Spain (fotw)

TRIANGLE VOIDED

See ‘voided triangle’.

Flag of Villa Saralegui, Argentina (fotw)

TRIANGULAR (or TRIANGLE) BORDER

See ‘wolfteeth 1)’.

Presidential Standard of Hungary (fotw)

TRIANGULAR-ENDED

A term used to describe the bottom edge of a gonfalon (or possibly the fly of a flag) when it is in the form of a straight-sided triangle (see also ‘gonfalon 1)’ and ‘triangular-ended tails’ below).

Gonfalon of Bilje, Croatia (fotw); Gonfalon of Bošnjaci, Croatia (fotw); Gonfalon of Bibinje, Croatia (fotw); Gonfalon of Marina, Croatia (fotw)

TRIANGULAR-ENDED (or TRIANGULARLY ENDING) TAILS (or TONGUES)

A term used to describe the bottom edge of a gonfalon (or possibly the fly of a flag) that is cut into two or more straight-sided tails or tongues with triangular ends (see also ‘gonfalon 1)’, ‘square-tailed’, ‘tails’, ‘tongue(s)’ and and ‘triangular-ended’ above).

Gonfalon of Lobor, Croatia (fotw); Gonfalon of Andrijaševci, Croatia (fotw); Gonfalon of Netretić, Croatia (fotw); Gonfalon of Barban, Croatia (fotw)

TRIANGULAR PANEL

1) The term that may be used to describe a right-angle triangle that usually occupies the full width of a flag, but which has two sides running parallel to and/or along the edges of that flag.
2) The term may also be used to describe those panels that appear and the hoist and at the fly of a diagonal tricolour, of a diagonally divided bi-colour, or of a flag having an ascending or descending diagonal – that is a bend or bend sinister - see ‘bend’ and ‘bend sinister’.
3) See ‘cantonal triangle’.

National Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina (fotw); Flag of Sarajevo – Centar, Bosnia and Herzegovina (fotw); Flag of Berezne, Ukraine (fotw)

Please note that this term has been introduced by the Editors as no suitable established alternative could be found.

TRIANGULAR SWALLOWTAIL

See ‘broad pennant’.

Triangular Swallow-Tail/Commodore’s Broad Pennant 1972 - 1994, RSA (fotw)

Please note that this term may also be applied to the flag of the state of Ohio, to some yacht club burgees and to certain (appropriately shaped) naval pennants – see ‘broad command pennant’, ‘burgee 1)’, ‘burgee 2)’ and ‘burgee command pennant’.

Flag of the State of Ohio, US (fotw); Burgee of the Laron Yacht Club, US (fotw); Squadron Command Pennant, UK (fotw)

TRIANGULAR-TONGUED (or TAILED)

The term for that variation of a swallow- tail, swallow-tail and tongue or a triple tailed flag whose tongues or tails form a triangle of the same layout as illustrated below (see also ‘swallowtail’, ‘swallowtail and tongue’, ‘tongue(s)’, ‘triangular tails’ and ‘triple-tailed 2)’.

Unit Colour 67th Military Police Battalion, Croatia (Željko Heimer); Flag of Euclid, U.S.(fotw)

Please note that this term has been introduced by the Editors as no suitable established term could be found.

TRIARCHED TRIANGULAR SHIELD

The term used in some systems of continental heraldry to describe a shield the edges of which are formed by three (usually regular) convex arcs (see also ‘French shield’, ‘Gothic shield’ with its following note, ‘Italian shield’, ‘rectangular shield’, ‘semicircular shield’, ‘shield 2)’ and ‘Spanish-style shield’).

Arms and flag of Tešanj, Bosnia and Herzegovina (fotw)

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