{"id":601,"date":"2026-05-29T10:19:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flags.page\/en\/glossary\/defacement\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T10:19:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:19:20","slug":"defacement","status":"publish","type":"term","link":"https:\/\/flags.page\/en\/glossary\/defacement\/","title":{"rendered":"Defacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>**Defacement** is the addition of a charge, badge or other distinguishing device to an existing flag in order to create a new or subordinate design. The practice is most common in the creation of ensigns, governors&#8217; flags, and the flags of dependencies, where a national flag is defaced with a colonial badge or coat of arms. The word carries no pejorative sense in vexillology.<\/p>\n<p>**Example**: Many British colonial flags consisted of the Blue Ensign defaced with the badge of the territory in the fly.<\/p>\n<p>**See also**: [ensign](\/glossary\/ensign\/), [charge](\/glossary\/charge\/), [undefaced](\/glossary\/undefaced\/), [canton](\/glossary\/canton\/)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-601","term","type-term","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/term\/601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/term"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/term"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}