embordured

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embordured (not comparable)

  1. (heraldry, rare) Furnished with a bordure (now especially if of the same tincture as the field).
    • 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 28:
      Azur, a chief gules embordured or.
    • 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:
      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 []