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Dictionary of Vexillology: C (Cross)

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CROOKED CROSS
CROSS
CROSS-CANTONÉE (or CANTONED)
CROSS-CLECHÉE
CROSS-COUPED
CROSS-FUSILLY
CROSS-LOZENGY
CROSS ANNULETTY
CROSS BAR (CROSS-BAR or CROSSBAR)
CROSS BARBED
CROSS BOTONNY (BOTTONNY or BOTTONÉE)
CROSS COUNTERCHANGED
CROSS COUNTERQUARTERED
CROSS CROSSLET
CROSS ENGRAILED
CROSS EQUIPOLLÉ (or EQUIPOLLÉE)
CROSS FITCHY
CROSS FIXED
CROSS FLEURY (FLORY, FLORETTY or FLEURONNY)
CROSS FLEURY FITCHY
CROSS FLEURY GIRONNY
CROSS FORMÉE, (FORMÉ or FORMY)
CROSS FORMY ROUNDED
CROSS GRINGOLÉE
CROSS GYRONNY
CROSS HUMETTY
CROSS MALTESE
CROSS MOLINE

CROOKED CROSS

See ‘swastika’.

Flag of the Hitler Youth 1933 – 1945, Germany (fotw)

CROSS

1) Two stripes or bands of equal width (and in the same colour) but of unequal length, that extend to the outer edges of the shield, flag, canton or panel they occupy, and intersect at right angles in the exact centre of that flag, canton or panel – a St George-type cross, a cross fixed, cross throughout, an upright centred, centred, regular or square cross (see also ‘St George’s Cross’).

2) A charge, which may or may not reach the outer edges of the shield, flag, canton or panel it occupies, and which may not have straight edges but which has four segments meeting at right angles at a central point – but see note below below and ‘appendix VIII’.

3) A generic name for two stripes of the same colour (although two/three colour variants exist see ‘cross counterchanged’ plus ‘cross gyronny’ in ‘Appendix VIII’, ‘tripartite’ and ‘layered cross’) and any width, crossing the field of a flag, panel or canton in any manner (see also ‘saltire’ and ‘Scandinavian cross’).

From left: Flag of Cruzilia, Brazil (fotw); Flag of Hajdina, Slovenia (fotw); Flag of Annœullin, France (fotw); Flag of Pisa, Italy (fotw); Flag of Asturias, Spain (fotw).

Please note however, that whilst several of the types used on flags are detailed separately herein – the cross throughout as given in 1) above, the Greek cross, the Celtic cross, the Scandinavian cross, the saltire (or diagonal cross), Cross of Lorraine, the swastika, and the Maltese cross – numerous other variants exist (mostly used in heraldry but which also sometimes appear on flags), and it is suggested that ’appendix VIII’ and a suitable glossary or heraldic dictionary be consulted.

CROSS-CANTONÉE (or CANTONED)

See ‘appendix VIII’

From left: Cross-Cantonée Example; National Flag of Georgia (fotw)

CROSS-CLECHÉE

See ‘appendix VIII’.

From left: Cross-Clechee Example; Arms and Flag of Mogilany, Poland (Jarig Bakker)

CROSS-COUNTERCHANGED

See ‘appendix VIII’.

Arms and Flag of Zaprešić, Croatia (fotw); Flag of Kreis Davos, Switzerland (fotw)

CROSS-COUNTERQUARTERED

See ‘cross counterchanged’ in ‘appendix VIII’.

Arms and Flag of Tursko, Czech Republic (fotw)

CROSS-COUPED

See ‘appendix VIII

National Flag of Tonga (fotw): Flag of Senèdes, Switzerland (fotw)

CROSS-FUSILLY

See ‘cross-clechée’ in ‘appendix VIII’.

Flag of La Tallada d'Empordà, Spain (fotw)

CROSS-LOZENGY

See ‘cross-clechée’ in ‘appendix VIII’.

Flag and Arms of Verdal, Norway (Tomislav Šipek)

CROSS ANNULETTY

See ‘sun cross’ and its following note.

Flag of the NorFdiska Rikspartiet, Sweden (fotw)

CROSS BAR (CROSS-BAR or CROSSBAR)

The transverse rod, from which a flag is suspended, either attached in the centre or from one end, or hung by cords from a vertical pole or poles (see also ‘banner 2)’, ‘banner 3)’, ‘frame 1)’, ‘frame 2)’, ‘framed flag’, ‘gonfalon’ and ‘vexillum’).

Gonfalon of Albano Sant'Alessandro, Italy (fotw); Gonfalon of Baradili, Italy (fotw)

CROSS BARBED