bordure

[ bawr-jer ]

noun

, Heraldry.

1. the area adjacent to the outer edges of an escutcheon.

bordure

/ ˈbɔːdjʊə /

noun

1. heraldry the outer edge of a shield, esp when decorated distinctively

Word History and Origins

Origin of bordure¹

Middle English word dating back to 1300–50; border

Word History and Origins

Origin of bordure¹

C15: from Old French; see border

Example Sentences

The silk bordure was furred with countervair, silver and blue.

From Literature

At Sheppey it was hung with green “saye” and contained “a trussyng bed of waynscot with testar, sylar and cortens of red and yelow sarcenet”; at Kilburn it was hung with “four peces of sey redde and grene, with a bordure of story,” and contained “a standinge bedd with four posts of weynscott, a trundle bedd under the same ... a syller of yelowe and redde bokerame and three curteyns of the same work.”

From Project Gutenberg

Cole of Cornwall bears, inter alia, a bordure sable, charged alternately with bezants and annulets.

From Project Gutenberg

The ordinaries, the lines of partition, &c., according to this system, are all significant: thus the bordure signifies a siege; the fesse, command; the cheveron, great note and estimation; per bend, justice; bendy-undy, some notable enterprise achieved by water; the pile, immortal virtue; nebuly, labour and travail.

From Project Gutenberg

The 4th son a bordure purflewe, argent and azure.

From Project Gutenberg