Definitions for bordure

bordure bor·dure

Spelling: [bawr-jer]
IPA: /ˈbɔr dʒər/

Bordure is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 116 anagrams from letters in bordure (bdeorru).

Definitions for bordure

noun

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

Origin of bordure

Middle English word dating back to 1300-50; See origin at border

Examples for bordure

On his episcopal seal his arms are shown as a chevron between three trefoils within a bordure.

Likewise the collar of the buck, their crest, was of the same colour as their bordure.

The bordure (H. 3), as its name implies, forms a border to a Shield: it is borne both plain and charged.

There are two other shields bearing, Two bars with a bordure.

The bordure, and its important services in Heraldry, will be more fully considered hereafter.

Saltire bears billets and a bordure, but not the ordinary so called.

By a curious divergence the bordure wavy is not a mark of illegitimacy in Scotland, but a mark of perfectly legitimate cadency.

This happens with the bordure when it is a part of the original coat of arms.

The bordure (Fig. 210) occurs both as a charge and as a mark of difference.

The impaled rose and thistle is borne by the Earl of Kinnoull, repeated eight times upon a bordure.

Word Value for bordure
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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