Английская Википедия:Goutte
Шаблон:Short description A goutte is a droplet-shaped charge used in heraldry. Its name derives from the Old French for "droplet".
A goutte may be blazoned by its tincture, as in a goutte argent (literally "a silver droplet"). Alternatively, there are special names given to gouttes of various tinctures, as in a goutte d'eau (literally "a droplet of water").
| metals | colours | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| g. d'or Файл:Goutte or.png of gold |
g. d'eau Файл:Goutte argent.png of water |
g. de larmes Файл:Goutte azure.png of tears |
g. de sang Файл:Goutte gules.png of blood |
g. de poix Файл:Goutte sable.png of tar |
g. d'huile Файл:Goutte d'huile.png of (olive) oil |
g. de vin Файл:Goutte de vin.png of wine |
In some medieval and Renaissance depictions of coats of arms, the goutte was drawn with wavy sides (as shown above). More modern depictions have smoothed the sides to make the droplets fatter and more symmetrical - as also seen in the arms on the personal seal used from 1353 by Elizabeth de Burgh, Lady of Clare, and on the 1359 seal of Clare College, Cambridge.
In their earliest uses, gouttes were semé: strewn upon the field of a coat of arms. Rather than semé de gouttes, this is termed goutty, gutté, or gutty (French gouttée). It was only much later that the goutte came to be used individually in heraldry as a charge in its own right.
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Шаблон:Reflist Шаблон:Heraldry Шаблон:Heraldry-stub
fr:Liste des meubles héraldiques#Goutte
