honorable ordinary: Meaning and Definition of

hon'orable or'dinary

Pronunciation: [key]
— Heraldry. Heraldry.
  1. any of the ordinaries believed to be among those that are oldest or that were the source of the other ordinaries, as the chief, pale, fess, bend, chevron, cross, and saltire.
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