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A Y-shaped band across a shield, formed of a half-pale and two half-bends.
Also known as: Shakefork
A Y-shaped ordinary, its two upper arms reaching the top corners and the stem descending to the base. Named for the ecclesiastical pallium it resembles, and used in the arms of several archbishoprics for exactly that reason.
A Y-shaped charge whose arms issue from the top corners of the shield and whose stem descends to the base.
Named for and shaped like the pallium, the woollen vestment worn by archbishops, and borne in the arms of several archiepiscopal sees on that account.
In Scottish practice the same form couped and pointed is blazoned a shakefork and is a distinct charge, borne notably by Cunningham.
Scotland
A Y-shaped band whose two arms reach the upper corners of a shield and whose stem runs to the base.