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| | Bar | Variants: Bar, Barr | One of the sub-ordinaries containing a fifth of the shield, and may be borne in any part of it. Two or more bars are frequently borne on the same field, as two bar, three bars etc. The diminutives of the bar are the Closet, which is half the bar and the Barrulet, which is half the Closet; when these diminutives are placed two and two in a Shield they are called Bars-gemel. When one or more Barrulets are placed on each side of a Fesse; the Fesse is said to be Cottised. These are all subject to the accidental forms of lines as engrailed, embattled, flory, etc. The Bar is similar to a Fesse but the Fess is broader. Some writers use the two terms somewhat incorrectly so reference to illustrations should be used when possible to verify the intent.
Bars, like the fess, are of course equally subject to all the varying lines of partition. | | Elvin Plate Reference: p. 5 n. 1 |              |
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