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| | Barrelet | Variants: Barrelet, Barrulet, Barrellet, Barrula, Barrule | | A diminutive of the Bar which is half its width and double the width of the cottise. But the barrulet will almost invariably be found borne in pairs, such a pair is usually known as a bar-gemel and not as two barrulets. Thus a coat with four barrulets would have these placed at equal distances from each other ; but a coat with two bars gemel would be depicted with two of its barrulets placed closely together in chief and two placed closely together in base, the disposition being governed by the fact that the two barrulets comprising the bar gemel are only one charge. | | Elvin Plate Reference: p. 5 n. 3 |  |
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