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
Killegrew of Cornwall bore, Argent, an eagle displayed with two heads sable, within a bordure sable bezantee.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony
A bordure charged with a series of inanimate figures or devices, as crosslets, roundles, &c.; to a similar bordure of living figures the term Enaluron is applied.
From The Handbook to English Heraldry by Utting, R. B.
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 Utting, R. B.
Sa. a lion ramp., ar. within a bordure engr. or.
From Notes and Queries, 1850.12.21 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. by Bell, George
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