per chief (English, adv)
expansion: per chief (not comparable)
Senses:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Partitioned into two parts by a horizontal line one-third of the way down the shield. A shield of this form is now normally viewed as one colour charged with a chief instead, although this may cause it to break the rule of tincture.
tags: nonstandard
not-comparable
Forms: