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Tower рус. башня

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англ tower, turret Часто упом. в связи с замком, но распространена и как самостоятельная фигура.Замок иногда изображают и содной башней, но обычно их три. Баня в её обычном ФИДЕ показана на полях.

«Azure, a tower or» – TOWERS, Northampton.

«Gules, in chief a castle surmounted with a tower argent; in base a lion passant gardant or» – City of NORWICH.

«Sable, three high towers argent» – DE TOUR, Shrewsbury.

«Sable, a plate between three towers argent» – WINSTON.

«Argent, five towers, two, two and one gules» – CORNELL.

Башня также может нсти три меньших башенки или «turrets» и описывается при этом «triple towered» или «triple turreted», при этом башенки могут изображаться как прямыми, так и наклонёнными кнаружи. Часто отмечаются купол (dome или cupola), шпиль (spire) или коническая кровля (conical roof), ворота (port или entrance), окна (port-holes или windows), боийницы (battlements) и т.д.

«Azure, a tower triple-towered or» – TOWERS, Isle of Ely.

«Argent, on a mount vert a tower triple-towered sable» – CHIVERTON, Lord Mayor of London, 1658.

«Azure, a castle triple-towered argent, port-holes and gate gules» – M'LEOD.

«Azure, two lions rampant argent chained or, supporting a tower triple-turretted of the second» – KELLY, Ireland.

«A tower triple-turretted of the second» – OWEN, co. Montgomery.

«Azure, a tower[otherwise with a cupola] argent, embattled and domed, the port gules» – Gilbert DE LA TOUR, Dorset.

«Azure, on a mount vert a castle embattled with three towers domed, on each a pennon, all or» – Town of CLITHEROW, Lancashire.

«Azure, on a mount proper couped a castle triple-towered argent, the middle tower with dome and pennon» – NIELSON, Bothwellshiels.

«Gules, a four-square castle in perspective with as many towers and cupolas, one at each angle, argent, standing in water azure» – RAWSON, co. York.

«Azure, on a bend between two water-bougets or three leopard's faces gules; a chief as the last charged with a castle triple-towered argent, having from the centre tower of a pyramidical shape a banner displayed like the first» – HUNT, Limerick.

«Sable, a quadrangular tower with four towers in perspective argent, masoned proper; the base of the escutcheon water of the last» – Town of PONTEFRACT, Yorkshire.

«Gules, a triple circular tower in a pyramidal form or, the first with battlements mounted with cannon of the last, all within a bordure azure charged with eight towers domed or» – Town of LAUNCESTON, co. Cornwall.

«Azure, a square castle embattled above the gate and at the top, triple-towered, the central tower larger than the dexter and sinister; on each side the central tower a sentinel-house or watch-tower, which are with the three towers pyramidally roofed, all argent, masoned sable, the portcullis and windows gules; the middle tower ensigned with a staff and banner charged with Royal arms of Scotland» – Burgh of FORFAR.

Термин «turret» иногда исп. отдельно от башни и представлять маленькую башню. Встречаются т.ж. определения «tourelle» и «torele».

«Le Roy de PORTUGAL, de goules poudre a turelles d'or a une labeu lazur» – Roll, temp. HEN. III.

«Le Counte de POYTERS, party dazur et de goules; per le goules poudre a turelles dor; lazur poudre o flurettes dor» – Ibid.

«Gules, three turrets or» – TERRETZ.

«Gules, three bars argent, on a quarter of the last a «torele» or a castle sable» – John DENE.

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