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For a lengthy period the use of the bend, bendlet, and baton sinister was usual for the purpose of denoting illegitimacy, but this has now given way to the use, in England, of a bordure wavy; in Scotland, of a bordure compony; whilst in Ireland both these bordures are used, more usually, however, the bordure wavy being employed.

See Herald College of Arms, Arms of, 131 Colour, 40, 41, 47, 110 339 “Colours,” 110, 265 Combattant, 86, 110 Combination of Arms, 158, 165 Compartment, 110 Complement, 111 Componée, Compony, or Gobony, 43, 111; Bordure, 191 Compound Badges, 133 Compound Quartering, 34, 111 Compounded Arms, 111, 158, 164 Confessor, the, 206.

Argent, an inescutcheon azure, border compony, or and gules.