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bordure
[ bawr-jer ]
noun
- the area adjacent to the outer edges of an escutcheon.
bordure
/ 藞产蓴藧诲箩蕣蓹 /
noun
- heraldry the outer edge of a shield, esp when decorated distinctively
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of bordure1
Example Sentences
The silk bordure was furred with countervair, silver and blue.
At Sheppey it was hung with green 鈥渟aye鈥 and contained 鈥渁 trussyng bed of waynscot with testar, sylar and cortens of red and yelow sarcenet鈥; at Kilburn it was hung with 鈥渇our peces of sey redde and grene, with a bordure of story,鈥 and contained 鈥渁 standinge bedd with four posts of weynscott, a trundle bedd under the same ... a syller of yelowe and redde bokerame and three curteyns of the same work.鈥
Cole of Cornwall bears, inter alia, a bordure sable, charged alternately with bezants and annulets.
The ordinaries, the lines of partition, &c., according to this system, are all significant: thus the bordure signifies a siege; the fesse, command; the cheveron, great note and estimation; per bend, justice; bendy-undy, some notable enterprise achieved by water; the pile, immortal virtue; nebuly, labour and travail.
The 4th son a bordure purflewe, argent and azure.
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