Hamade^[a] is anheraldic ordinary in the shape of threebars placed one under another, not touching the edges of thefield.^[1] The bars can be of equal length or have the top bar longer than the bottom one. They can have straight edges, or skewed edges, with their base being shorter than their top.^[2]

The name derives fromFrench wordhaméïde,^[3] and comes from the name of the village ofLahamaide,Belgium, which used the ordinary in its coat of arms.^[4]

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  The coat of arms ofLahamaide,Belgium.
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  The coat of arms ofMir,Belarus.
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  The coat of arms ofNekrasovsky,Russia.
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  The coat of arms ofFresnes-lès-Montauban,France.
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  Korczak coat of arms.

• J.P. Brooke-Little, (1996).A Heraldic Alphabet. Robson Books.
• Gert Oswald,Lexikon der Heraldik. VEB Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1984. ISBN 3-411-02149-7.
• L.-A. Duhoux d'Argicourt,l'Alphabet et figures de tous les termes du blason, Paris 1899.

• Heraldic ordinaries

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