Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A border around a shield.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete or archaic form of
border , retained in heraldry.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Her.) A border one fifth the width of the shield, surrounding the field. It is usually plain, but may be charged.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun heraldry A contrasting
border round ashield
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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We cud jsut sit there – meowing pitifullee at the bordure!
Video: The Cat-erpillar - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Pour remédier à cet inconvénient, il faut parfumer la bordure avec le musc, ou l'eau de fleur d'orange; ou bien encore mêler quelque huile essentielle aromatique comme de citron, de cannelle, de lavande, &c. avec l'essence de térébentine, …
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And the principalle zates of his palays ben of precious ston, that men clepen sardoyne: and the bordure and the barres ben of ivorye: and the wyndowes of the halles and chambres ben of cristalle: and the tables where on men eten, somme ben of emeraudes, summe of amatyst and summe of gold, fulle of precious stones; and the pileres, that beren up the tables, ben of the same precious stones.
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And the principalle zates of his palays ben of precious ston, that men clepen sardoyne: and the bordure and the barres ben of ivorye: and the wyndowes of the halles and chambres ben of cristalle: and the tables where on men eten, somme ben of emeraudes, summe of amatyst and summe of gold, fulle of precious stones; and the pileres, that beren up the tables, ben of the same precious stones.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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SENE, M. (1988): Le travail la dent en traction bovine pour une meilleure infiltration des eaux des premires pluies sur sols grvillonnaires en bordure de plateaux: C.R. de Kaymor.
Chapter 9 1991
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Air made a thin bordure to its shield, shading from blue to purple to the winter sky of space.
A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1974
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The double-headed eagle, the bordure bizantée, and the demilion charged with bezants, are all evident derivations from the armorial bearings of Richard, titular king of the Romans, Earl of
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The arms are, argent, an eagle displayed with two heads within a bordure sable bezanty.
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Perhaps A.R.X. can also say whether the arms properly borne by the Muirtown branch are those given to them in Burke's _Armory_, viz.Gu. three crescents interlaced or, between as many wolves 'heads erased arg. armed and langued az., all within a bordure of the third, charged with eight mullets of the first.
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Giano della Bella, of one of the families thus distinguished, who no longer retained his place among the nobility, and had yet added to his arms a bordure or.
Paradise. Canto XVI 1909
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