Pall (heraldry)

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Pall (heraldry)

A pall (or pairle) is a Y

The letter Y is the twenty-fifth letter in the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English language is spelled wye or occasionally wy' , plural wyes....
-shaped heraldic charge
Charge (heraldry)

In heraldry and vexillology, a charge is an image occupying the field on an Escutcheon . Charge can also be a verb; for example, if an escutcheon bears three Lion s, then it is said to be charged with three lions. It is important to distinguish between divisions of the field and charges, and to note that charges can themselves be c...
. An example of a (fesswise) pall is the green portion of the Flag of South Africa
Flag of South Africa

The current flag of the Republic of South Africa was adopted on April 27, 1994, during the South African general election, 1994. A new national flag was adopted to represent the new democracy....
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A pall that stops short of the shield's edges and that has pointed ends to its three limbs is called a shakefork.

A pall on a shield may indicate a connection with the clergy, particularly bishoprics
Diocese

In many rites of the Roman Catholic Church and in Anglicanism, a diocese is an administrative territorial unit administered by a bishop. It is also referred to as a bishopric or Episcopal Area or episcopal see, though strictly the term episcopal see refers to the domain of ecclesiastical authority officially held by the bi...
, although the palls in these cases usually have a bottom limb that stops short of the bottom of the shield and is fringed.

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A pall (or pairle) is a Y
Y

The letter Y is the twenty-fifth letter in the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English language is spelled wye or occasionally wy' , plural wyes....
-shaped heraldic charge
Charge (heraldry)

In heraldry and vexillology, a charge is an image occupying the field on an Escutcheon . Charge can also be a verb; for example, if an escutcheon bears three Lion s, then it is said to be charged with three lions. It is important to distinguish between divisions of the field and charges, and to note that charges can themselves be c...
. An example of a (fesswise) pall is the green portion of the Flag of South Africa
Flag of South Africa

The current flag of the Republic of South Africa was adopted on April 27, 1994, during the South African general election, 1994. A new national flag was adopted to represent the new democracy....
.

A pall that stops short of the shield's edges and that has pointed ends to its three limbs is called a shakefork.

A pall on a shield may indicate a connection with the clergy, particularly bishoprics
Diocese

In many rites of the Roman Catholic Church and in Anglicanism, a diocese is an administrative territorial unit administered by a bishop. It is also referred to as a bishopric or Episcopal Area or episcopal see, though strictly the term episcopal see refers to the domain of ecclesiastical authority officially held by the bi...
, although the palls in these cases usually have a bottom limb that stops short of the bottom of the shield and is fringed. Such palls are often called ecclesiastical palls.