Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In heraldry: A bearing, usually considered as a subordinary, like a border but not reaching the edge of the escutcheon, so that the field is seen outside of it as well as within.
- noun A band of small objects taking the form of an orle: as, an orle of mullets. It is more commonly blazoned in orle (which see, below).
- noun A circlet set upon a helmet, which supports the crest and is often used in modern heraldry without the helmet, furnishing the only support or base for the crest.
- noun The rim of a shield; especially, the metal rim of a shield composed of wood, osier, or the like, and visible as a projecting rim on its face.
- noun In architecture, same as
orlet .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Her.) A bearing, in the form of a fillet, round the shield, within, but at some distance from, the border.
- noun (Her.) The wreath, or chaplet, surmounting or encircling the helmet of a knight and bearing the crest.
- noun round the escutcheon, leaving the middle of the field vacant, or occupied by something else; -- said of bearings arranged on the shield in the form of an orle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun heraldry A
bordure which runs around the outline of ashield without touching the edge.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Though the libretto is not very carefully written, it is better than the average performances of this {177} kind, and with poetical intuition Schefsky has refrained from the temptation, to make it turn out well, as Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer has done in her play of L'orle, which is a weak counterpart of Auerbach's village-tragedy.
The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Charles Annesley
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This family bears: party per pale or and sable, an orle counterchanged and two lozenges counterchanged, with: “i, semper melius eris,” — a motto which, together with the two distaffs taken as supporters, proves the modesty of the burgher families in the days when the Orders held their allotted places in the State; and the naivete of our ancient customs by the pun on
A Start in Life 2007
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On looking in the windows orle is fairly astonished at the diversity of shapes that are exposed for sale.
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On looking in the windows orle is fairly astonished at the diversity of shapes that are exposed for sale.
The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken Philip E. Muskett
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Azure, an orle of martlets or, on an inescutcheon arg. three bass gules.
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In his hand he bore that singular _abacus_, or staff of office, with which Templars are usually represented, having at the upper end a round plate, on which was engraved the cross of the Order, inscribed within a circle or orle, as heralds term it.
Ivanhoe 1892
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In the midst thereof he findeth a couch right fair and rich and high, and at the foot of this couch was a chess-board right fair and rich, with an orle of gold all full of precious stones, and the pieces were of gold and silver and were not upon the board.
The High History of the Holy Graal Anonymous 1869
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The arms on the memorial to John Pierrepont are -- A lion rampant within eight roses in orle.
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The well-known Shield of the MORTIMERS supplies a good example, No. 131 (H. 3) -- _Barry of six or and az., an inescutcheon arg.; on a chief gold, gyroned of the second, two pallets of the same_: for DARCY -- _Arg., an inescutcheon sa., within an orle of roses gu.
The Handbook to English Heraldry Charles Boutell 1844
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_Arg., within an orle of roses gu., a lion rampt.sa. _, for Sir R. PIER.OUND, both apparently founded on the shield of the Earl of
The Handbook to English Heraldry Charles Boutell 1844
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