tressure
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English tressour, from a mixture of Old French tressure and tresseor. By surface analysis, tress + -ure.
Pronunciation
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[edit]tressure (plural tressures)
- (heraldry) A narrow border near the edge of a shield or banner.
- 1956 July, Col. H. C. B. Rogers, “Railway Heraldry”, in Railway Magazine, page 480:
- 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": […] .
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[edit]Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]tressure
- alternative form of tressour
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