Roundel (heraldry) "pommes" is now more common. The term for a red roundel, "torteau", is typically pluralised in the French manner as "torteaux" rather than "torteaus", although "torteaus" is occasionally seen. A "pellet" may also be called an "ogress". In modern French blazonry, a roundel of either metal ("or" or "argent") is a "besant", and a roundel of any colour (dark tincture) is a "torteau", with the tincture specified. However, an alternate naming system has been used for the non-mental tinctures, with similar terms as English heraldry ("guse" for "gules", "heurte" for "azure", "ogoesse" for "sable", "somme", "volet" or "pomme" for "vert",
Stain (heraldry) darker than Gules, the regular red, from approximately the same extent as murrey to purpure, and brunâtre from tenné. It can also be used for the depiction of animals said "écorché" ('scorched') in French heraldry, although this is very rarely used among the already rare occurrences of blazons depicting bleeding animals, on which the regular Gules is used instead. Tenné (deriving mid-16th century from an obsolete French variant of Old French "tané") (sometimes termed "tawny") is an orange-tawny colour, though "orange" is considered distinct in continental European and African heraldic traditions. Called "tanné" in modern and actual French heraldry, it