Blazoning the US flag
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pneBarry gules and argent of seven and six, on a canton azure fifty molets of the second.
(From an email .sig of John Cowan's.)
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Re: molets
Date: Tuesday, 30 March 2004 14:59 (UTC)Actually, I think Old Glory could be the first ever use of stars on a flag, the one that started the trend. Before that, stars were hardly ever used as in vexillology (the usual heraldic star has six wavy arms)