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embordering

embordering is the present participle and gerund of emborder.

Meaning of emborder

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.

Questions about embordering

What is embordering the present participle and gerund of?
Embordering is the present participle and gerund of emborder.

Words near embordering in the dictionary

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

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