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
But the stereotyped use of the bordure wavy in England with a set meaning, gives to the wavy variety a lack of desirability.
From The Handbook to English Heraldry by Utting, R. B.
On a tile which I have seen, but cannot just now recollect where: The double-headed eagle, bezant�e, without any bordure.
From Notes and Queries, Number 203, September 17, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George
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 Rogers, William Henry Hamilton
This Shield, represented in No. 328, has both the bordure on its dexter half, and the tressure on its sinister half, dimidiated by the impalement.
From The Handbook to English Heraldry by Utting, R. B.
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