Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A scale in early armor. See under rustred.
- noun Hence In heraldry, a lozenge pierced with a circular opening, large in proportion to the whole surface, the field appearing through it. Compare
mascle .
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Examples
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Le rustre avoue ingénument que non, et ajoute qu'il serait bien content de la savoir.
French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann
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Un gros rustre qui était appuyé contre un pilier de l'église était le seul qui ne pleurât [1] pas.
French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann
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May the gods continue to make: dice-weir boxes superconfident low-level telepathic peccable language identical daydreamers dapperling Moadex re-do do’d denotating bike rustre mini cacophonious calmative worrywart, deck saga, novel sun scrogs unlikes a consortium of cliffs: Kenneth Goldsmith pride of place and joy to us here at hear right writing official counsel, dual reasoning: who deserves Pliny who’d answer their prayers if he could and
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Haultcastel de St. - Paterne, vous êtes un paltoquet et un rustre! ... "
The Martian George Du Maurier 1865
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