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embordured

embordured adjective: furnished with a bordure (now especially if of the same tincture as the field).

Adjective

embordured (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Furnished with a bordure (now especially if of the same tincture as the field).
    • Azur, a chief gules embordured or.1680, Sir George Mackenzie, The Science of Herauldry, Treated as a Part of the Civil Law, and Law of Nations: Wherein Reasons are Given for Its Principles, and Etymologies for Its Harder Terms, page...
    • Armorial bearings - He bears for Arms : Quarterly, 1. ermine, three bars gules (for Fothringham); 2. gules, embordured a lion rampant or, with a scymitar in his dexter paw proper (for Scrymscoure); 3. argent, a lion passant[…]1899, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families: A Directory of Some Gentlemen of Coat-armour, Showing which Arms in Use at the Moment are Borne by Legal Authority, page 781

Forms of embordured

alternative formembordered
alternative formemborder'd

Questions about embordured

What does embordured mean?
Embordured means furnished with a bordure (now especially if of the same tincture as the field).
What part of speech is embordured?
Embordured is an adjective.

Words near embordured in the dictionary

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

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