Usually means: Border surrounding a heraldic shield.
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  1. bordure: Merriam-Webster
  2. bordure: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bordure: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bordure: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bordure: Wordnik
  6. bordure: Wiktionary
  7. bordure: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. bordure: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Bordure, bordure: Dictionary.com
  10. Bordure: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Bordure: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. bordure: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Bordure, bordure (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. bordure: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. bordure: FreeDictionary.org
  16. bordure: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. bordure: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bordure)

▸ noun:  (heraldry) A contrasting border around a shield.

Similar:
orle, welt, tressure, border, console, shield, pale, purfle, roundshield, charge, more...

Opposite:
center, interior, middle

Adjectives:
plain, captain, une, narrow, engrailed, beaded, lower, black, red

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Similar:
orle, welt, tressure, border, console, shield, pale, purfle, roundshield, charge, more...

Opposite:
center, interior, middle

Adjectives:
plain, captain, une, narrow, engrailed, beaded, lower, black, red



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