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# Dictionary of Vexillology: A (Ascending Diagonal – Attributed Flag)

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- ASCENDING DIAGONAL
- ASHOKA CHAKRA (or CHAKKRA)
- ASKLEPIAN (or ASKLEPIAN STAFF)
- ASPECT RATIO
- ASTRAL CROWN
- ASYMMETRIC LEFT (or SINISTER) STEPPED
- ASYMMETRIC RIGHT (or DEXTER) STEPPED
- ATHLETICS CROSS
- AT THE DIP
- AT THE FORE
- AT THE LEECH
- AT THE MAIN
- AT THE MASTHEAD
- AT THE MIZZEN
- AT THE PEAK (or AT THE PEAK OF THE GAFF)
- ATTIRE(S)
- ATTIRED
- ATTRIBUTED ARMS
- ATTRIBUTED FLAG

ASCENDING DIAGONAL
  1) The term for a diagonal stripe that runs from the lower hoist corner to the upper fly corner, and which centres on the corners of the flag – a bend sinister, rising diagonal, fly-diagonal, left diagonal or left diagonal bar – but see bend sinister and Appendix IX (also east-west diagonal, north-east diagonal, north-south diagonal, south-east diagonal, south-north diagonal, west-east diagonal, west-north diagonal, west-south diagonal).
  2) The term may also be used to describe the division line on a bicolour divided diagonally as shown below – but see per bend sinister 1) (also bicolour 1) and descending diagonal).

  National Flag of Tanzania; National Flag of the Solomon Islands; Flag of Acre, Brazil

ASHOKA CHAKRA (or CHAKKRA)
  See chakra.

  Buddhist Flag, Thailand

ASKLEPIAN (or ASKLEPIAN STAFF)
  See staff of asclepius.

  Flag and Emblem of the 52nd Field Ambulance, Canada

ASPECT RATIO
  See proportions.

ASTRAL CROWN
  In UK and some other usage, a coronet based on the naval model, but composed of wings and stars, and representative of the military air service (see also naval crown).

  Officers Commanding in Chief RAF, UK; UK Pattern Astral Crown (Martin Grieve); Commandant-General RAF Regiment, UK

ASYMMETRIC LEFT (or SINISTER) STEPPED
  See stepped gonfalon.

ASYMMETRIC RIGHT (or DEXTER) STEPPED
  See stepped gonfalon.

ATHLETICS' (or ATHLETIC) CROSS
  See cross of athletics.

  Flag of the Albis Steam Shipping Company 1897, Germany

AT THE DIP
  See dip, at the.

AT THE FORE
  See fore, at the.

  Flag of a Vice-Admiral, UK

AT THE LEECH
  See leech.

AT THE MAIN
  See main, at the.

  Flag of an Admiral 1853, Austria/Hungary

AT THE MASTHEAD
  See masthead, at the.

AT THE MIZZEN
  See mizzen, at the.

  Flag of a Rear-Admiral, UK

AT THE PEAK (or AT THE PEAK OF THE GAFF)
  See peak 1) (also gaff).

ATTIRE(S)
  The heraldic term for an antler (or a pair or group of antlers) from a stag, when shown separately – but see attired below.

  Flag of Oberrüti, Switzerland; Flag of Balingen, Germany; Flag of Glattfelden, Switzerland

ATTIRED
  The heraldic term used when the antlers of a stag, or the horns of some other animal – for example a goat – are shown in a different tincture from that of its body – accorné – see ‘attire’ above (also armed 2), beaked, gorged, jelloped, langued, membered).

  Flag of Forel, Switzerland; Flag of Gävleborg, Sweden; Flag of Espadanedo, Portugal

ATTRIBUTED ARMS
  The heraldic term for that coat of arms which was assigned to a person whose lifetime predated the introduction of heraldic symbolism, or for whom there is no evidence that any such arms were either granted or assumed (see also attributed flag).

  Attributed Arms of King Edward the Confessor 1042–1066, England (Wikimedia)

ATTRIBUTED FLAG
  The term for a flag, or the illustration of such a flag, that is attributed to a particular historical person or entity, but for which no real evidence of actual use exists (see also attributed arms, putative flag, reconstruction, suppositious flag).

  Attributed Flag of Macedonia 1921–1923 (Facebook)

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