PAVILION

PAVILION, in Heraldry, denotes a covering in form of a tent, which invests or wraps up the armories of divers kings and sovereigns, depending only on God their sword.

The pavilion consists of two parts; the top, which is the chapeau, or coronet; and the curtain, which makes the mantle.

None but sovereign monarchs, according to the French heralds,

heralds, may bear the pavilion entire, and in all its parts. Those who are elective, or have any dependence, say the heralds, must take off the head, and retain nothing but the curtains.