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Dictionary of Vexillology: T (Triangle - Triarched Triangular Shield)

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TRIANGLE
TRIANGLE THROUGHOUT
TRIANGLE VOIDED
TRIANGULAR (or TRIANGLE) BORDER
TRIANGULAR-ENDED
TRIANGULAR-ENDED (or TRIANGULARLY ENDING) TAILS
TRIANGULAR PANEL
TRIANGULAR SWALLOWTAIL
TRIANGULAR-TONGUED (or TAILED)
TRIARCHED TRIANGULAR SHIELD

TRIANGLE

A usually horizontal charge whose apex lies along the meridian, and which may extend up to or slightly exceeding one-half the length of a flag, but whose base generally (but not exclusively) occupies the full width of the hoist – a simple or hoist-triangle. When the base is on the fly it may be called a reversed or fly-triangle, when parallel to the lower edge of a flag it may be called an ‘upright triangle’ or a cone, and when parallel to the upper edge an inverted triangle, however, but in these latter two cases the base generally occupies only a proportion of a flag or panel’s length (see also ‘chevron 1)’ and ‘meridian’ and ‘voided triangle’).

National flag of Djibouti (fotw), Flag of Kájov, Czech Republic (fotw); Flag of Bahia, Brazil (fotw); National Flag of St Lucia; A Gay Triangle Flag (fotw)

Please note, however, that a triangle whose apex and base touch opposite edges of the flag should be considered a pile (see ‘pile’).

Flag of Železniki, Slovenia (fotw)

TRIANGLE THROUGHOUT

See ‘pile 1)’ (also ‘throughout’).

Flag of Natalia 1838 – 1843 (fotw)

TRIANGLE VOIDED

See ‘voided triangle’.

Flag of Villa Saralegui, Argentina (Ivan Sache)

TRIANGULAR (or TRIANGLE) BORDER

See ‘wolfteeth 1)’.

Presidential Standard of Hungary (Zoltan Horvath)

TRIANGULAR-ENDED

A term used to describe the fly of a flag or bottom edge of a gonfalon when it is in the form of a straight-sided triangle (see also ‘gonfalon 1)’ and ‘triangular-ended tails’ below).

Gonfalon of Bošnjaci, Croatia (Željko Heimer); Gonfalon of Bibinje, Croatia (fotw)

TRIANGULAR-ENDED (or TRIANGULARLY ENDING) TAILS (or TONGUES)

A term used to describe the fly of a flag or bottom edge of a gonfalon that is cut into two or more straight-sided tails or tongues with triangular ends (see also ‘gonfalon 1)’, ‘square-tailed’ ‘tongue(s)’ and and ‘triangular-ended’ above).

Gonfalon of Lobor, Croatia (Željko Heimer); Gonfalon of Andrijaševci, Croatia (fotw)

TRIANGULAR PANEL

1) The term that may be used to describe a right-angle triangle that usually occupies the full width of a flag, but which has two sides running parallel to and/or along the edges of that flag.
2) The term may also be used to describe those panels that appear and the hoist and at the fly of a diagonal tricolour, of a diagonally divided bi-colour, or of a flag having an ascending or descending diagonal – that is a bend or bend sinister - see ‘bend’ and ‘bend sinister’.
3) See ‘cantonal triangle’.

National Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina (fotw); Flag of Sarajevo – Centar, Bosnia and Herzegovina (fotw); Flag of Berezne, Ukraine (fotw)

Please note that this term has been introduced by the Editors as no suitable established alternative could be found.

TRIANGULAR SWALLOWTAIL

See ‘broad pennant’.

Triangular Swallow-Tail/Commodore’s Broad Pennant 1972 - 1994, RSA (fotw)

Please note that this term may also be applied to the flag of the state of Ohio, to some yacht club burgees and to certain (appropriately shaped) naval pennants – see ‘broad command pennant’, ‘burgee 1)’, ‘burgee 2)’ and ‘burgee command pennant’.

Flag of the State of Ohio, US (fotw); Burgee of the Laron Yacht Club, US (fotw); Squadron Command Pennant, UK (Graham Bartram)

TRIANGULAR-TONGUED (or TAILED)

The term for that variation of a swallow- tail, swallow-tail and tongue or a triple tailed flag whose tongues or tails form a triangle of the same layout as illustrated below (see also ‘swallowtail’, ‘swallowtail and tongue’, ‘tongue(s)’, ‘triangular tails’ and ‘triple-tailed 2)’.

Unit Colour 67th Military Police Battalion, Croatia (Željko Heimer)

Please note that this term has been introduced by the Editors as no suitable established term could be found.

TRIARCHED TRIANGULAR SHIELD

The term used in some systems of continental heraldry to describe a shield the edges of which are formed by three (usually regular) convex arcs (see also ‘French shield’, ‘Gothic shield’ with its following note, ‘Italian shield’, ‘rectangular shield’, ‘semicircular shield’, ‘shield 2)’ and ‘Spanish-style shield’).

Arms and flag of Tešanj, Bosnia and Herzegovina (fotw)

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