Dictionary of Vexillology: C (Cinquefoil – Civil Jack)

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• CINQUEFOIL (CINQFOIL or CINQUE-FOYLE)
• CIPHER
• CITATION FLAG (or PENNANT)
• CITY ARMS (or COAT OF ARMS)
• CITY FLAG
• CIVIC ARMS
• CIVIC BANNER
• CIVIC CROWN
• CIVIC FLAG
• CIVIC SASH
• CIVIL AIR (or AVIATION) ENSIGN (or FLAG)
• CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY (or ADMINISTRATION) FLAG
• CIVIL ENSIGN
• CIVIL FLAG
• CIVIL JACK

CINQUEFOIL (CINQFOIL or CINQUE-FOYLE)

Alternative heraldic terms that describe a charge in the form of a stylized flower having five leaves and often (but not invariably) pierced in the centre – a cinofoil, cinque-foyle, quinterfoil or quintefeuille (see also ‘quatrefoil’ and ‘trefoil’).

Flag of All Souls College, UK (fotw); Example; Flag of Aetigkofen, Switzerland (fotw)

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CIPHER

See ‘royal cypher 1)’ and ‘monogram’.

Cipher of HSH Prince Rainier III 1923 – 2005, Monaco (fotw)

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CITATION FLAG (or PENNANT)

See ‘award flag’.

Presidential Unit Citation Pennant, US (fotw)

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CITY ARMS (or COAT OF ARMS)

See ‘civic arms 1)’.

 
Flag of the City of Gloucester, UK (fotw); Arms of the City of Nottingham, UK (fotw); Flag of the City of Sheffield, UK (fotw)

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CITY FLAG

See ‘civic flag 1)’.

Flag of the City of Leicester, UK (fotw); Flag of the City of York, UK (fotw); Flag of the City of Southampton, UK (fotw)

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CIVIC ARMS

1) The coat of arms or full set of armorial bearings of a municipality or urban area – municipal, borough or city arms (see also ‘armorial bearings’, ‘civic flag 1)’ and ‘coat of arms 2)’).

2) In UK usage and in some others, as above but also the arms or full set of armorial bearings of a sub-national county – the county arms (see also ‘civic flag 2)’).

3) The term can also be applied to the emblems of sub-national entities that are not coats of arms or full sets of armorial bearings as defined herein (see also ‘anti-heraldry’ and ‘emblem’).

Flag of Plitvička jezera, Croatia (fotw); Arms of Wiltshire, UK (fotw); Flag of Pitomača, Croatia (fotw)

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CIVIC BANNER

1) See ‘banner 3)’.

2) A term that may be used when the flag of a municipality or urban area is a banner of arms – see ’civic flag’ (also ‘banner of arms’).

Flag and Arms of Davle, Czechia (fotw)

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CIVIC CROWN

1) The heraldic term for a closed garland or chaplet composed of oak leaves and acorns (see also ‘crown triumphal’ and ‘garland’).

2) See ‘mural crown 1)’.

A Heraldic Civic Crown (Parker)

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CIVIC FLAG

1) The flag of a municipality or urban area – a municipal, borough or city flag (see also ‘banner 4)’ and ‘civic arms 1)’).

2) In UK usage and in some others, as above but also the sub-national flag of a county (see also ‘sub-national flag’ and ‘civic arms 2)’).

3) See ‘civil flag’.

Flag of Barrancos, Portugal (fotw); Flag of Ludwigslust, Germany (fotw); Flag of Bačice, Czechia (fotw)

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CIVIC SASH

See ‘sash 1)’.

Civic Sash of France

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CIVIL AIR (or AVIATION) ENSIGN (or FLAG)

That flag, now increasingly obsolete, flown at civilian airports, landing fields and by some civil air authorities – but see ‘civil aviation authority flag’ (also ‘royal air mail pennant’).

Civil Air Ensign, Guyana (fotw); Civil Air Ensign, Ghana (fotw); Civil Air Ensign, Zambia (fotw)

Please note that in British use (and in that of some Commonwealth countries) such a flag is called a civil air ensign (see also ‘air mail flag’).

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CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY (or ADMINISTRATION) FLAG

That flag which is flown by some country’s civil aviation authorities – but see civil air ensign.

Civil Aviation Authority, Trinidad and Tobago; Civil Aviation Authority, Jamaica; Civil Aviation Administration, Argentina

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CIVIL ENSIGN

See under ‘ensign’.

Civil Ensign of Albania (fotw); Civil Ensign of The Bahamas (fotw); Civil Ensign of Australia (fotw)

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CIVIL FLAG

The version of a national or provincial flag that is for use by private citizens on land (see also ‘national flag’, ‘official flag 2)’, ‘state flag’, ‘civil ensign’ under ‘ensign’ and ‘sub-national flag’ with following notes).

Civil Flags of Guatemala, El Salvador and of the Canary Islands, Spain (fotw)

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CIVIL JACK

See under ‘jack’.

 
Civil Jack of The Bahamas (fotw)

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