A variant or archaic spelling of bandel, sometimes referring to a band or stripe of color, especially in heraldry.
Related to the bandeau and band family of words, from Old French. May derive from Frankish *banda with a diminutive or variant suffix.
Bandel is one of those words lost to history—it barely appears in modern English, but it shows how medieval heraldry had specific terms for every stripe and color pattern on shields and crests!
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