Barry

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 763

Barry, in Heraldry, the term applied to a shield which is divided transversely into four, six, or more equal parts, the tinctures of which are interchangeably disposed.

Diagram of a Barry shield, showing a shield divided into four horizontal bands of alternating tinctures.
Diagram of a Barry shield, showing a shield divided into four horizontal bands of alternating tinctures.
Diagram of a Barry-bendy shield, showing a shield divided into six diagonal bands of alternating tinctures.
Diagram of a Barry-bendy shield, showing a shield divided into six diagonal bands of alternating tinctures.
Diagram of a Barry-pily shield, showing a shield divided into six horizontal piles of alternating tinctures.
Diagram of a Barry-pily shield, showing a shield divided into six horizontal piles of alternating tinctures.

Barry-bendy is where the shield is divided into four, six, or more equal parts, by diagonal lines, the tincture of which it consists being varied interchangeably.

Barry-pily is where the shield is divided into an even number of pieces by piles placed horizontally across it.

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