bordure
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of bordure
Middle English word dating back to 1300–50; see origin at border
Example Sentences
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The silk bordure was furred with countervair, silver and blue.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
They are derived from the College Shield, which in heraldic language is sable a crescent ermines with a bordure ermines.
From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Edward Conybeare
The impaled rose and thistle is borne by the Earl of Kinnoull, repeated eight times upon a bordure.
From The Handbook to English Heraldry by R. B. Utting
Cornwall of Essex bore the red lion of Poictou, the ermine of Burgundy, and the sable bordure bezantee of Cornwall.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower
He was the first of his line that bore for his arms, Or, a chevron gules within a bordure engrailed sable.
From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by William Henry Hamilton Rogers
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