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- historicalnot comparablegovernmentHaving rustres.
[image of (a) papelonné and (b) masculy; caption:] Two shields (a) representing rustred armour, and (b) mascled armour, anno 1100.
1856, Thomas Stewart Traill, Encyclopædia Britannica, Or, Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, page 3232 more examples
(By its interwoven mascles his hanberk^([sic]) is conspicuously marked.) This was called "rustred armour," as contrasted with "ringed armour," one row of flat rings, about double the usual size, being laid over the other so that two in the upper partially covered one below.
1896, Arthur Perceval Purey- Cust, The Heraldry of York Minster: A Key to the History of Its Builders and Benefactors ; as Shewn in the Stained-glass Windows, and in the Carved Work in Stone, page 110[...] blazons argent, pale gules, charged with three fusels in the field pointed downwards and a tortueau azure rustred [translating forata] or and accosted by two similar torteau, bordure argent and gules.
2011 November 10, Un blasonario secentesco della piccola e media aristocrazia romana: Seventeenth century blazonry of the lesser roman aristocracy, Gangemi Editore spa, →ISBN, page 52
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