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 a shield

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English; see border.]

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Examples

  • We cud jsut sit there – meowing pitifullee at the bordure!

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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, …

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • 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 Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

    Notes and Queries, Number 15, February 9, 1850 Various

  • The arms are, argent, an eagle displayed with two heads within a bordure sable bezanty.

    Notes and Queries, Number 13, January 26, 1850 Various

  • 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.

    Notes and Queries, Number 64, January 18, 1851 Various

  • 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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