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Dictionary of Vexillology: C (Cross Patriarchal - Crosstree)

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CROSS PATRIARCHAL
CROSS PATTÉE (PATÉE, PATTY or PATY)
CROSS PATTÉE ROUNDED
CROSS POMEL (POMÉE, POMMETTY or POMMELLY)
CROSS POTENT (or POTENCE)
CROSS POTENT REBATED
CROSS POTENT CANTONÉE
CROSS QUARTERED
CROSS QUARTER-PIERCED
CROSS RAGULY
CROSS TAU
CROSS THROUGHOUT
CROSS TREFOIL (or TREFLEE)
CROSS VOIDED
CROSSED BRANCHES
CROSSLET
CROSSTREE

CROSS PATRIARCHAL: See ‘cross of Lorraine’.

Flag of Roeselare, Belgium (fotw)
CROSS PATTÉE (PATÉE, PATTY or PATY): See ‘appendix VIII’ (also ‘Cross of the Order of the Knights of Christ’, ‘Maltese cross’ and ‘rounded cross’).

From left: Cross Pattee Example; Civil Ensign of Guernsey; Flag of Oensingen, Switzerland (fotw); Flag of Wallis & Fortuna
CROSS PATTÉE ROUNDED: See ‘rounded cross’.

Arms and Flag of Outeiro Major, Portugal (fotw)
CROSS POMEL (POMÉE, POMMETTY or POMMELLY): See ‘appendix VIII’.

Arms and Flag of Santa Cruz, Portugal (Klaus-Michael Schneider)
CROSS POTENT (or POTENCE): See ‘appendix VIII’.

From left: Cross-Potent example; Flag of Goumoëns-la-Ville, Switzerland (fotw)
CROSS POTENT CANTONÉE: A Jerusalem cross – see ‘Appendix VIII’).

Flag of the Kingdom of Jerusalem 1162 – 1191 (fotw)
CROSS POTENT REBATED: See ‘swastika’ (also ‘cross potent’ in ‘Appendix VIII’).

Flag of Hirosaki, Japan (fotw)
CROSS QUARTERED: A translation of the Spanish term cruz cuartelada, and German "geviertes Kreuz" sometimes used in place of their (English) heraldic equivalents - see ‘cross counterchanged’ and ‘cross gyronny’ in ‘Appendix VIII’ (also ‘cross counter-quartered 2)’ in ‘Appendix VIII’).

Flag of Bormujos, Spain (Ivan Sache); Flag of Palomares del Río, Spain (Klaus-Michael Schneider)
CROSS QUARTER-PIERCED: See ‘equipollé’ and its following note.

Flag of Ħ'Attard, Malta (fotw)
CROSS RAGULY: See ‘ragged cross’ and ‘raguly’.

Spanish Naval Flag 16-17th C (fotw)
CROSS TAU: See ‘appendix VIII’.

From Left: Cross Tau Example; Flag of Lede, Belgium (fotw); Flag of St. Antönien-Ascharina, Switzerland (fotw)
CROSS THROUGHOUT: See ‘cross 1)’.

Flag of Pontrieux, France (fotw)
CROSS TREFOIL (or TREFLEE): See ‘cross botonny’ in ‘appendix VIII’.

Flag of the Church of Norway (fotw)
CROSS-VOIDED: See ‘appendix VIII’.

From Left: Cross-Voided Example; Flag of the Mouvement Normand, France (fotw); Flag of De Haan, Belgium (fotw)
CROSSED BRANCHES: 1) Short lengths of (occasionally differing) foliage, sometimes with flowers/fruit etc., and sometimes without, which intersect at their lowest point.
2) A phrase occasionally used in place of the more precise terms “garland” and “wreath” – see ‘garland 2)’ and ‘wreath 1)’.

Detail and National Flag of Turkmenistan (fotw); Arms and Flag of Pennsylvania, US (fotw); Arms and National Flag of San Marino (fotw)
CROSSLET): See ‘Appendix VIII’.

Arms and Official Flag of Galicia, Spain (fotw)
CROSSTREE: 1) In largely US usage, a yard if fitted to a flag mast ashore (see also ‘yard’).; 2) A cross bar attached near the top of an unstayed flagpole for the purpose of providing additional halyards to the one reeved at the truck (see also ‘reeve’, 'yard' and 'stayed mast').

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