tressure
noun
a narrower diminutive of the orle, usually ornamented with fleurs-de-lis at the edges and often doubled.
tressured
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a word derived from
tressure.
Example Sentences
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The Scottish officers maintained that as Scotland was the older sovereignty, its tressured lion should take precedence of the three lions-passant, or, as they called them, the leopards, of England.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower
