Legs of Men

Legs of Men

Legs of Men, Animals, and Birds, are of common use in Heraldry. Animals legs are termed Gambs which see. Birds legs, when erased, are termed A-la-Quise to which refer.

Men's legs are borne in various ways inCoat-Armour, and each form should be particularly expressed in blazon ; but it is always to be understood that when a man's leg is blazoned couped, or erased at the thigh, it is to be bent at the knee, whether clad in armour or not, as a leg in armour, couped at the thigh. P. 36 f. 22. and f. 23. A leg erased at the thigh, and other examples. Same plate, and P. 38, f. 18.