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Flag of Portland, Oregon, the Glossary

Index Flag of Portland, Oregon

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

  1. 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.

  2. 1969 establishments in Oregon
  3. Flags introduced in 1969
  4. Flags of cities in Oregon

Astroid

In mathematics, an astroid is a particular type of roulette curve: a hypocycloid with four cusps.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Willamette River

The Willamette River is a major tributary of the Columbia River, accounting for 12 to 15 percent of the Columbia's flow.

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See also

1969 establishments in Oregon

Flags introduced in 1969

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.