Meanings
- raregovernmentPositioned at such an angle as to show three-fourths of the figure: in between affronté (facing forward) and in profile. (When applied to creatures, chiefly found in modern rather than medieval heraldry.)
In trian aspect means between passant and affronty. [...] Gules, on a mount vert a stork in trian aspect to the sinister[…]
1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 242 more examples
4 The Byrd arms show three gold stags' heads cut off at the neck ('erased') and turned to the viewer's left ('in trian aspect'), on a black ('sable') field. 'Sable' is confirmed by College[…]
2016 February 17, John Harley, The World of William Byrd: Musicians, Merchants and Magnates, Routledge, →ISBNSupporters — Dexter, a sea-lion azure, mane and head in trian aspect argent, langued gules, crowned with a crown tridenty gold; sinister, a seahorse azure, head and neck argent and crowned also with a crown tridenty gold,[…]
2020 April 20, Susan Morris, Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 2019, eBook Partnership, →ISBN, page 4685
Origin
Related to trine (“threefold”), Latin tria (trēs).
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