Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Emblazoned with a tressure, as an escutcheon.
- The use of the word in the following quotation is erroneous, because the fleurs-de-lis are not tressured, but the tressure is flowered with fleurs-de-lis.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Her.) Provided or bound with a tressure; arranged in the form of a tressure.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective heraldry Provided or bound with a
tressure ; arranged in the form of a tressure.
Etymologies
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tressure + -ed
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Examples
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On the eagle's breast is a shield, tressured like the royal standard, since Perth was the national capital until the "King's Tragedy" of
Civics: as Applied Sociology Patrick Geddes 1893
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The tressured Lion has been already noticed upon the Royal Shield of
The Handbook to English Heraldry Charles Boutell 1844
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