Definitions for tressures

tressures tres·sure

Spelling: [tresh-er]
IPA: /ˈtrɛʃ ər/

Tressures is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 151 anagrams from letters in tressures (eerrssstu).

Definitions for tressures

noun

  1. Heraldry. a narrower diminutive of the orle, usually ornamented with fleurs-de-lis at the edges and often doubled.
  2. Numismatics. an ornamental border enclosing the type on a coin or medal.

Origin of tressures

1275-1325; late Middle English Middle French, equivalent to tress(er) to braid, plait (derivative of tresse tress) + -ure -ure; replacing Mid

Examples for tressures

In 1471 there was a curious attempt of the Scottish Parliament to displace the tressure.

The same rule, by the way, applies to the tressure, but not to the orle.

Here the tressure was gules, as in the Royal arms, although the field on which it was placed was vert.

Tres′sured, having a tressure: arranged in the form of, or occupying the position of, a tressure.

This augmentation has been interpreted as a golden scocheon with the demi-lion within the Scottish tressure.

The first authentic illustration of the tressure in the arms of Scotland dates from the year 1260.

The tressure should be double, but in this instance it is single.

Within this border is a representation of the full coat-of-arms of Scotland—a lion rampant, within a tressure flory counter-flory.

Two instances are known in which the decoration of the tressure has differed from the usual conventional fleurs-de-lis.

The border surrounding the lion is heraldically known as the tressure.

Word Value for tressures
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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