- FRACTED
- A heraldic term used when an ordinary, such as a bar, fess or chevron, is broken in one or more places
(see also ordinary).
Flag of Braunwald, Switzerland (fotw); Flag of
Leuggelbach, Switzerland (fotw);
Arms and Flag of Markvartice, Czech Republic (fotw)
- FRAME
- 1) The wood or metal bar by which the top edge of a flag is held but see
framed flag 1) below (also
cross bar).
- 2) In largely (but increasingly obsolete) maritime usage, this term may also describe the rod (attached to a
ships mast or yard by lines) that is inserted into the heading of a streamer or pennant in order to stiffen it
at the hoist but see headstick (also
command pennant with following notes,
distinguishing vane,
pennant 2),
streamer 2) and
vane 1)).
- FRAMED FLAG
- 1) A flag that is designed to be attached both along its hoist to the staff, and along
its top to a side-mounted cross-bar sometimes called a gonfalon (see also
cross bar), frame above
and staff 2).
- 2) See outrigger flag.
![[framed flags]](../images/v/vxt-d148.gif)
![[framed flags]](../images/v/vxt-d2291.gif)
![[framed flags]](../images/v/vxt-d2292.gif)
From left:
Flag of Hirnyk, Ukraine; Flag of
Guta, Ukraine (Dov Gutterman); Flag of
Andrushivka, Ukraine (fotw)
- FRAMED WIMPEL(S)
- See flόger).
![[framed wimpel]](../images/v/vxt-d2385.gif)
Framed Wimpel/Flόger of the Hamburg Customs Flag (Klaus-Michael Schneider)
- FRANKLIN FLAG
- An early (unofficial but used and with a variation in the order of the stripes colours - quite widely reproduced) pattern of the stars and
stripes; it was first detailed by Benjamin Franklin whilst ambassador to Paris, flown in
European waters by John Paul Jones and aboard the captured HMS Serapis, and was one of
the first versions to gain international recognition the Serapis flag (see also
Betsy Ross flag,
continental colours,
‘eagle standard’,
great star flags,
old glory,
star-spangled banner and
stars and stripes).
![[Serapis flag]](../images/v/vxt-d473.gif)
The Franklin Pattern of Stars and Stripes, 1778 (fotw)
- FRENCH SHIELD
- The term, and a literal translation of Franzφsischer Schild, sometimes used in German language vexillology
to describe a rectangular shield see rectangular shield.
![[French shield]](../images/v/vxt-d2133.gif)
Please note that several of the terms giving shields a national identity, as well as those describing a
specific type, are still in the process of standardization, and that no consistent approach has thus far been identified.
- FRET
- The heraldic term for a figure composed of two diagonal bendlets interlaced with a mascle
(or voided lozenge), and meant to represent a section of fishing net
(see also bendlet and
mascle).
![[Fret]](../images/v/vxt-d2880.gif)
![[Fret]](../images/v/vxt-d2880a.gif)
![[Fret]](../images/v/vxt-d2881.gif)
![[Fret]](../images/v/vxt-d2882.gif)
![[Fret]](../images/v/vxt-d2883.gif)
Flag and Arms of Karmψy, Norway (Tomislav ipek);
Flag of Koceljeva, Serbia (fotw);
Flag of Johannesburg, South Africa (fotw);
Flag of Mont-de-lEnclus, Belgium (fotw)
- FRETTED
- See interlaced.
![[Sveta Nedelja, Croatia]](../images/v/vxt-d2182a.gif)
![[Sveta Nedelja, Croatia]](../images/v/vxt-d2182.gif)
Flag and Arms of Sveta Nedelja, Croatia (Željko Heimer)
- FRETTY (FRETE or FRETTΙ)
- The heraldic term for a pattern of interlaced bars forming a (usually) diagonal trellis either overlapped or
joined together (see also interlaced).
Flag of Kojetνn, Czech Republic (fotw); Flag and Arms of
Prostějov, Czech Republic (fotw);
Flag of Oulens-sous-Echallens, Switzerland (fotw);
Flag and Arms of Sγo Joγo do Campo, Portugal (fotw)
- FRIENDSHIP FLAG
- A term that is used when two or more flag designs are combined into a single entity
a cut-and-paste flag (see also combined flag,
marshalling,
union flag 1) and
union mark).
US-Canada Friendship Flag (fotw);
US, Canada and Mexico Friendship Flag (fotw); US-UK Friendship Flag (Pete Loeser)
- FRINGE
- A decoration of twisted thread and/or metal often (but not invariably) attached to edges of
a military colour, or of a flag intended
for ceremonial and/or indoor use (see also colour 2),
cravat,
indoor flag
and parade flag).
Indoor/Parade Flag of Shiga Prefecture Police, Japan (Nozomi Kariyasu);
Indoor/Parade Flag of the Navy, US (fotw)
- FRUCTED (or FRUITED)
- The heraldic term for when a tree or branch is bearing fruit, generally shown in another
tincture (see also leaved and tincture)
Flag of Bormla, Malta (fotw); Flag of
Wileroltigen, Switzerland (fotw); Arms of Runovinci,
Croatia (fotw); Flag of Hφngg, Switzerland (fotw); Arms and Flag of Bombarral, Portugal (Klaus-Michael Schneider)
- FULL ACHIEVEMENT OF ARMS
- See 'achievement of arms' and
'armorial bearings.
![[Churchill arms]](../images/v/vxt-d890.gif)
The Achievement of Arms/Armorial Bearings of the Late Sir Winston Churchill, UK (Churchill Society)
- FULL DRESSING
- 1) See dress ship, to 1)
and dress ship, to 4).
- 2) See dressing overall 2)
and dressing overall 3).
![[dressing ship example]](../images/v/vxt-d611.gif)
A Warship of the South African Navy Dressed Overall (Andries Burgers)
- FULL MAST (or FULL STAFF) A FLAG
- (v & adj) To fly a flag in its normal position right up to the truck, a term
generally used after a flag has spent a mourning period at half mast (see also
flag pole, half mast
and truck).
- FULL MOON
- See disk, moon 2) with following note and per complement 2).
![[Shan State, Myanmar]](../images/v/vxt-d1196.gif)
Flag of Shan, Myanmar (fotw)
- FUNERAL ACHIEVEMENT
- See achievement of arms 2).
Funeral Achievement/Armorial Bearings of the Late Sir Winston Churchill, UK (Churchill Society)
- FUNERAL FLAGS (or PENNANTS)
- 1) Flags or pennants flown from the cars in a funeral cortege or procession, in order to
facilitate keeping that cortege together and to help other drivers avoid breaking
into it, not to be confused with a pall flag or with mourning flags (see also
car flag,
mourning flag and
pall flag, together with
badge banner,
bannerole,
great banner,
grumphion and
livery banner).
- 2) The term may also be used to describe those flags often draped with a mourning ribbon that are carried
in a funeral cortege (see also draping,
cravat 2) and
mourning ribbon).
- FURL(ED)
- 1) (v) To wind (roll up) a colour or parade flag around its staff before
it is cased usually done with ceremony (see also
unfurl(ed),
case(d),
uncase(d),
colour (2) and
parade flag 2)).
- 2) (adj) A flag is considered furled when hoisted in a rolled and/or folded
condition prior to being broken out at the truck see
break a flag (also
truck).
- FURS
- See ermine,
potent,
vair and
Appendix III.
![[fur example]](../images/v/vxt-d1172a.gif)
![[fur example]](../images/v/vxt-d1172b.gif)
![[fur example]](../images/v/vxt-d1172c.gif)
From left: Ermine, Potent and Vair.
- FUSELAGE MARKING
- 1) The term sometimes used to describe a non-circular emblem of nationality
employed by some nations in the same way and for the same purpose as a roundel but
see the note below, roundel 1) and
wing marking(s) 1)
(also balkenkreuz,
fin flash,
iron cross and
aircraft marking(s)).
2) See roundel 1).
Fuselage/Wing Marking of The Philippines (fotw); Fuselage/Wing Marking of
Botswana (fotw); Fuselage/Wing Marking of
Chile (fotw)
Notes
a) The term fuselage only refers to the body of an aircraft and to
those markings that appear thereon, so when these same emblems appear on the wings of
an aircraft they are properly called wing markings.
b)
In some
types of aircraft the description fuselage can (technically speaking) include their
tail plane/fin, but that the term given above should never be used to describe any
markings shown thereon see fin flash.
- FUSIL
- The heraldic term for an elongated lozenge - see lozenge 2)
(also square lozenge).
- FUSILLY
- See lozengy.
Flag of Balenyΰ, Spain (fotw)
- FUSILLY BENDY (or BENDY SINISTER)
- See lozengy bendy.
Flag of the State of
Bavaria, Germany (fotw)
- FYLFOT
- See swastika.
Flag of the Canadian Nazi Party 1933 1938 (fotw)
