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Conventional elements of coats of arms

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Coat of arms

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Ordinaries	Bar Bend Bordure Canton Chevron (Łękawica) Componée Cross Crozier head Chief Fess Flaunch Gyron Hamade Label Lozenge Orle Pale Pall Pile Roundel Saltire
Beasts	Bear Boar Bull/ox Dog/hound Camelopard Hind/stag Kangaroo Leopard Lion Wolf
Birds	Avalerion Black swan Cock Crow Dove Eagle Szaszor Wingcloth Martlet Pelican
Other	Bee Dolphin Ged Crapaudy Emmet Lucy Reremouse Scallop Serpent Wolfsangel
Legendary	Allocamelus Alphyn Amphiptere Basilisk Biscione Chollima Cockatrice Dragon Enfield Garuda Griffin/keythong Harpy Hippocampus Hippogriff Lampago Lindworm Manticore Mermaid Ouroboros Pantheon Panther Pegasus Phoenix Salamander Sea-lion Tyger Unicorn Woodwose Wyvern Yale
Knots	Bourchier Bowen Cavendish/Savoy Dacre Harrington Hastings/Hungerford Heneage Hinckaert Hungerford knot Lacy Ormonde/Wake Savoy Stafford Tristram/Bowen Wake

Metals	Argent (white) Or (gold)
Colours	Gules (red) Sable (black) Azure (blue) Vert (green) Purpure (purple)
Furs	Ermines Erminois Erminites Pean Vair Potent
Stains	Murrey (mulberry) Sanguine (blood red) Tenné
Rare metals¹	Copper Buff (metal in the United States)
Rare colours¹	Bleu celeste Brunâtre (brown) Buff (color in Canada) Carnation Cendrée Ochre Orange Rose

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¹ Non-traditional, regional, or rarely used (sometimes considered unheraldic)
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