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# Dictionary of Vexillology: T (Trade Union Banner – Tressure Fleury)

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- TRADE UNION BANNER
- TRADE UNION FLAG
- TRAILING
- TRAILING EDGE
- TRANSARTAT
- TRANSFIXED
- TRANSPOSED
- TRANSVERSANT (or TRANSVERSE)
- TRANSVERSED
- TRAPEZIOD (or TRAPEZIUM)
- TRAPEZOIDAL PENNANT
- TREFOIL
- TREFOIL (or TREFLEE) CROSS
- TRESSURE
- TRESSURE FLEURY (or TRESSURE FLORY)

TRADE UNION BANNER
  See banner 3).

TRADE UNION FLAG
  A flag, as opposed to a banner as defined herein, that is representative of a trade union or an affiliation of such unions (see also banner 3)).

  Metal Industry Union, Germany; General Labour Confederation, Colombia; General Workers Union, Portugal

  Please note that, in both historical and/or contemporary terms, a trade union flag and a political flag can often be very closely linked – see political flag 2).

TRAILING
  1) In UK military and some other usage, a term for marching with a colour or flag dragging on the ground, or standing in that position, and is employed as a mark of respect to the head of state at funerals or as a token of victory in a parade of captured enemy colours – but see vailing (also dipping 1)).
  2) An uncommon method of saluting using a flag hoisted on a pole – the flag is lowered until it just touches the ground for a few seconds, and then raised smartly – practiced in some monarchies as a salute to a member of the royal family.

TRAILING EDGE
  An alternative term for the sinister edge of a vertically hung banner or a gonfalon – see sinister edge 2).

  Please note, that this term has been introduced by the Editors as a vexillological alternative to the heraldically derived "sinister edge".

TRANSARTAT
  A medieval term, now obsolete, for a banner on a crossbar.

TRANSFIXED
  The heraldic term used when a charge or animal has been pierced with an arrow, sword, lance or other weapon (see also pierced 2)).

  Flag of Senčur, Slovenia; Flag of Mače, Croatia; Arms and Flag of Lipnica, Poland

TRANSPOSED
  An alternative heraldic term to reversed – see reversed 2).

  Arms and Flag of Milower, Germany

TRANSVERSANT (or TRANSVERSE)
  Heraldically derived terms used when the charge on a flag is shown as being rotated 90 degrees from the position in which it is usually seen (see also Latin Cross and its following note b).

TRANSVERSED
  An alternative heraldic term to contourné.

  Flag of Bergues, France

TRAPEZOID (or TRAPEZIUM)
  1) A charge similar to a triangle but with the apex squared, as in the flag of Kuwait (see also triangle).
  2) The alternative terms used to describe a triangular pennant whose apex is squared – a trapezoidal pennant (see also code pennant, numeral pennant, pennant 2).

  National Flag of Kuwait; Pennant of the Yacht Racing Union of the Great Lakes, US

TRAPEZOIDAL PENNANT
  See trapezoid 2).

  Burgee of the Watersportvereniging Werkendam, The Netherlands

TREFOIL
  The heraldic term for a charge in the form of a stylized flower or plant with three petals or leaves, and which is almost invariably shown bearing a stalk (see also cinquefoil, cloverstems, cross botonny, quatrefoil).

  Flag of Trpinja, Croatia; Flag of Ungersheim, France; Flag of Mladenovac, Serbia

  Please note that a cloverleaf and the traditional Irish emblem – a shamrock – are also trefoils.

  Burgee of the Royal North of Ireland Yacht Club

TREFOIL (or TREFLEE) CROSS
  In heraldry see cross botonny.

  Flag of Boudevilliers, Switzerland; Arms of Vestby, Norway

TRESSURE
  The heraldic term used by some writers to describe a narrow single border inset from the edges of a shield, banner of arms or a flag – but see orle 1) and its following note (also border, double-tressure, inset border).

  Flag of the Customs Administration, Turkey; Rank Flag of a General Officer, Croatia

TRESSURE FLEURY (or TRESSURE FLORY)
  In heraldry see fleury and tressure (also double-tressure fleury counter fleury).

  Flag and Arms of Vang, Norway

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