tressure

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The double tressure was an ornamental tracing round the shield, at a fixed distance from the border.

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  1. In numismatics, the ornamental inclosure containing the type found on many coins, especially gold, in the French, AngloGallic, and English series. W. C. Hazlitt.
  2. In heraldry, a modification of the orle, generally considered as being of half its width, and double. According to some writers, the tressure is a double orle—that is, two narrow bands separated by a space about equal to the width of each of them, and both together occupying the same space as an orle or nearly so. Also called tract. The Scottish arms are a lion with a border, or tressure, adorned with flower-de-luces. T. Warton, Hist. Eng. Poetry. II. 269.

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  1. from heraldic F. tressure, from tresser, weave, plait: see tress.
 

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