and the coat of arms of Spain, with an inescutcheon of the house of Bourbon-Anjou. In Scots heraldry the escutcheon en surtout serves several different purposes. This all comes under the heading of marshalling. Lozenge: a rhombus with its long axis upright, resembling the diamond of playing-cards. Fusil: a thin lozenge; very much taller than it is wide. Mascle: a voided lozenge (i.e. with a largish lozenge shaped hole) Rustre (very rare): a lozenge pierced (i.e. with a smallish round hole) Roundel: a disc or ball, as in the arms of the Duchy of Cornwall or of the Medici. In the Anglophone heraldries differently coloured roundels have different names, e.g. a roundel or is called a bezant and a roundel azure is called a hurt. French heraldry solely distinguishes besants (roundels of a metal tincture) and tourteaux (roundels of a colour tincture): hence, the Canadian Francophone versions of blazons follow suit — Anglophone hurt is Francophone tourteau d'azur, and Anglophone bezant is a besant d'or Annulet: a voided roundel (i.e. with a largish round hole, resembling a ring) Billet: a small rectangle, resembling a brick or a letter. Billets are normally vertical (as in the arms of the Kingdom of the Netherlands), but can be horizontal (as in the arms of Friesland). Variations Lines Ordinaries need not be bounded by straight lines. Diminutives When a coat of arms contains two or more of an ordinary, they are nearly always blazoned (in English) as diminutives of the ordinary, as follows. Diminutives of the pale pallet: theoretically half the width of a pale. endorse: half the width of a pallet; also found in pairs on either side of a pale when the term "endorsed" is used Diminutives of the fess bar, see above. barrulet, narrower than both. hamade (also called hamaide or hummet): a bar couped which doesn't reach the edges of the shield, usually in threes Diminutives of the bend bendlet, half the width of a bend. ribbon or riband, half the width of a bendlet, occasionally called a cost baton: a bendlet couped which doesn't reach the edges of the shield, often said to be only a bendlet sinister couped, but has certainly been used as a couped bendlet 'dexter' since the 17th century at the latest Diminutive of the bend sinister bendlet sinister, half the width of a bend sinister, also very occasionally called a scarpe; baton sinister, a