rather than before.

A number of heraldic adjectives may be given in either a French or an anglicised form: for example, a cross pattée or a cross patty; a cross fitchée or a cross fitchy. In modern English blazons, the anglicised form tends to be preferred.

Where the French form is used, a problem may arise as to the appropriate adjectival ending, determined in normal French usage by gender and number.

The usual convention in English

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