<p>Three crescents interlaced so as to be incomplete <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borromean_rings" class="extiw" title="en:Borromean rings">Borromean rings</a>.  This was the emblem of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_de_Poitiers" class="extiw" title="en:Diane de Poitiers">Diana of Poitiers</a> and her lover <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_II_of_France" class="extiw" title="en:Henry II of France">Henry II of France</a> (see external site <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.liv.ac.uk/~spmr02/rings/moons.html">http://www.liv.ac.uk/~spmr02/rings/moons.html</a> ).  It has also come to be used in the coat of arms of Bréval (see <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blason_ville_fr_Br%C3%A9val_(Yvelines).svg" title="File:Blason ville fr Bréval (Yvelines).svg">Image:Blason ville fr Bréval (Yvelines).svg</a>) and Crécy-la-Chapelle (see <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blason_CrecylaChap.svg" title="File:Blason CrecylaChap.svg">Image:Blason CrecylaChap.svg</a>), and in a slightly different form as the emblem (or "petites armoiries") of the city of Bordeaux (see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bordeaux30.jpg" class="extiw" title="en:Image:Bordeaux30.jpg">en:Image:Bordeaux30.jpg</a>).  In recent years, it has been taken up by a few neopagans (as an alternative version of the symbol <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Triple-Goddess-Waxing-Full-Waning-Symbol.png" title="File:Triple-Goddess-Waxing-Full-Waning-Symbol.png">Image:Triple-Goddess-Waxing-Full-Waning-Symbol.png</a>), though it has an unfortunate resemblance to a modern <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_hazard" class="extiw" title="en:Biological hazard">biohazard</a> symbol...
</p><p>For a version in symbolic colors, see <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Three-Crescents-Diane-Poitiers-multicolored.png" title="File:Three-Crescents-Diane-Poitiers-multicolored.png">Image:Three-Crescents-Diane-Poitiers-multicolored.png</a> .
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For a solid form of the symbol, see the lower corner of <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Religious_symbols.svg" title="File:Religious symbols.svg">Image:Religious symbols.svg</a> .
AnonMoos
2005
<p><span class="int-own-work" lang="en">Own work</span> -- Generated by means of the following <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript" class="extiw" title="en:PostScript">PostScript</a> code:
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