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A narrow horizontal band, borne in multiples across a shield.
Also known as: Barry
A diminutive of the fess. Bars are almost always borne in numbers — two, three or more — and a field covered in an even number of alternating bars is blazoned 'barry' rather than as bars on a field.
A narrow horizontal band, conventionally about a fifth of the shield's depth, usually borne in multiples.
Where the whole field is covered in an even number of alternating horizontal stripes it is blazoned 'barry of six', 'barry of eight' and so on — a division of the field rather than charges upon it. The distinction matters because it changes what is figure and what is ground.
A narrow horizontal band across a shield, usually one of several.
A bar is a fess drawn narrower.