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tressures

tressures is the plural of tressure.

Meaning of tressure

Noun

tressure (plural tressures)

  1. A narrow border near the edge of a shield or banner.
    • The official blazon of the arms of Perth is "Gules, a Holy Lambe passant regardant staff and cross argent, with the banner of St. Andrew proper, all within a double tressure counter-flowered of the second": […].1956 July, Col. H. C. B. Rogers, “Railway Heraldry”, in Railway Magazine, page 480

Questions about tressures

What is tressures the plural of?
Tressures is the plural of tressure.

Words near tressures in the dictionary

  1. Tresslers
  2. tressless
  3. tresslike
  4. tressure
  5. tressured
  6. tressures
  7. tressy
  8. Trester
  9. Tresters
  10. trestle
  11. trestle bed

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