Flag of Portland, Oregon, the Glossary
The city flag of Portland, Oregon, consists of a green field on which is placed a white four-pointed star (a truncated hypocycloid) from which radiate blue stripes, each bordered by L-shaped yellow elements (''esquarres'').[1]
Table of Contents
16 relations: Astroid, Brigid's cross, Canton (flag), Columbia River, Esquarre (heraldry), Fimbriation, Flag, Flag of Oregon, Government of Portland, Oregon, Hypocycloid, Nordic cross flag, North American Vexillological Association, Pantone, Portland, Oregon, Seal of Portland, Oregon, Willamette River.
- 1969 establishments in Oregon
- Flags introduced in 1969
- Flags of cities in Oregon
Astroid
In mathematics, an astroid is a particular type of roulette curve: a hypocycloid with four cusps.
See Flag of Portland, Oregon and Astroid
Brigid's cross
Brigid's cross or Brigit's cross (Irish: Cros Bhríde, Crosóg Bhríde or Bogha Bhríde) is a small variant of the cross often woven from straw or rushes.
See Flag of Portland, Oregon and Brigid's cross
Canton (flag)
In vexillography, the canton is a rectangular emblem placed at the top left of a flag, usually occupying up to a quarter of a flag's area.
See Flag of Portland, Oregon and Canton (flag)
Columbia River
The Columbia River (Upper Chinook: or; Sahaptin: Nch’i-Wàna or Nchi wana; Sinixt dialect swah'netk'qhu) is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America.
See Flag of Portland, Oregon and Columbia River
Esquarre (heraldry)
Esquarre (Fr., alternately escarre, esquierre; as Anglo-Norman alternately esquarie, esquire, esquierre, esquerre) is a name for both a heraldic ordinary and a set of related mobile charges.
See Flag of Portland, Oregon and Esquarre (heraldry)
Fimbriation
In heraldry and vexillology, fimbriation is the placement of small stripes of contrasting colour around common charges or ordinaries, usually in order for them to stand out from the background, but often simply due to the designer's subjective aesthetic preferences, or for a more technical reason (in heraldry only) to avoid what would otherwise be a violation of the rule of tincture.
See Flag of Portland, Oregon and Fimbriation
Flag
A flag is a piece of fabric (most often rectangular) with distinctive colours and design.
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Flag of Oregon
The flag of the state of Oregon is a two-sided flag in navy blue and gold with an optional gold fringe.
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Government of Portland, Oregon
The government of Portland, Oregon is based on a city commission government system.
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Hypocycloid
In geometry, a hypocycloid is a special plane curve generated by the trace of a fixed point on a small circle that rolls within a larger circle.
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Nordic cross flag
A Nordic cross flag is a flag bearing the design of the Nordic or Scandinavian cross, a cross symbol in a rectangular field, with the centre of the cross shifted towards the hoist.
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North American Vexillological Association
The North American Vexillological Association (NAVA) is a membership organization devoted to vexillology, the study of flags.
See Flag of Portland, Oregon and North American Vexillological Association
Pantone
Pantone LLC (stylized as PANTONE) is an American limited liability company headquartered in Carlstadt, New Jersey, and best known for its Pantone Matching System (PMS), a proprietary color space used in a variety of industries, notably graphic design, fashion design, product design, printing, and manufacturing and supporting the management of color from design to production, in physical and digital formats, among coated and uncoated materials, cotton, polyester, nylon and plastics.
See Flag of Portland, Oregon and Pantone
Portland, Oregon
Portland is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the Pacific Northwest region.
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Seal of Portland, Oregon
The seal of the City of Portland in Oregon was originally adopted in 1878, standardized in 1964, and most recently revised August 3, 2005.
See Flag of Portland, Oregon and Seal of Portland, Oregon
Willamette River
The Willamette River is a major tributary of the Columbia River, accounting for 12 to 15 percent of the Columbia's flow.
See Flag of Portland, Oregon and Willamette River
See also
1969 establishments in Oregon
- Adams High School (Oregon)
- Agate Beach State Recreation Site
- Alkali Lake Chemical Waste Dump
- Brooks Resources
- Cedar Hills Crossing
- Chemeketa Community College
- Church of the Creator
- Embers Avenue
- Environmental Law (journal)
- Eugene Augur
- Flag of Portland, Oregon
- Free Souls Motorcycle Club
- Interstate 405 (Oregon)
- Jefferson Public Radio
- Jewell Meadows Wildlife Area
- KHPE
- KSOR
- KZEL-FM
- Music Millennium
- Oregon Country Fair
- Oregon Court of Appeals
- Oregon Department of Environmental Quality
- Pendleton Round-Up and Happy Canyon Hall of Fame
- Pixieland (Oregon)
- Portland Loggers
- Posse Comitatus (organization)
- SOLVE
- Sellwood Riverfront Park
- The Old Spaghetti Factory
- TriMet
- Ukiah, Oregon
- Umatilla National Wildlife Refuge
- Union Bank Tower
- Valley River Center
- Vista Ridge Tunnels
- Wilsonville Memorial Park
- Wilsonville, Oregon
Flags introduced in 1969
- Ecology Flag
- Flag of Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Flag of Bhutan
- Flag of Bohol
- Flag of Portland, Oregon
- Flag of Saskatchewan
- Flag of Scarborough
- Flag of Shetland
- Flag of the Federal District (Brazil)
- Flag of the Northwest Territories
Flags of cities in Oregon
- Flag of Portland, Oregon
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Portland,_Oregon
Also known as Flag of Portland, OR, Flag of portland.