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emborder

emborder verb: to furnish or adorn with a border.

Verb

emborder (third-person singular simple present emborders, present participle embordering, simple past and past participle embordered)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To furnish or adorn with a border.
    • Among thick woven arborets and flours
      Emborder'd on each bank1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker...
  2. (archaic, transitive) To border with the same metal or fur, rather than one that contrasts.

Forms of emborder

third-person singular presentemborders
present participleembordering
past participleembordered
pastembordered
alternative formimborder
alternative formimbordure

Origin of emborder

From em- + border.

Questions about emborder

What does emborder mean?
Emborder means to furnish or adorn with a border.
What part of speech is emborder?
Emborder is a verb.
What is the past tense of emborder?
The past tense of emborder is embordered.

Words near emborder in the dictionary

  1. embondages
  2. embondaging
  3. embonic acid
  4. embonpoint
  5. embonpoints
  6. emborder
  7. embordered
  8. embordering
  9. emborders
  10. embordured
  11. emborse

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