Definitions for orle

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orle orle

Spelling: [awrl]

IPA: /ɔrl/

Orle is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 28 anagrams from letters in orle (elor).

Definitions for orle

noun

1. Heraldry. a charge in the form of a narrow band following the form of the escutcheon within the edge, so that the extreme outer edge of the escutcheon is of the field tincture. an arrangement in orle of small charges:
2. Armor. a thick roll of cloth or leather on a helmet forming a base for an ornamental crest.
3. Also called orlet, O01/O0161800 awr-ley, ɔrˈleɪorlo. Architecture. a border, as one formed by a fillet. a fillet at the upper end of the shaft of a column. Compare cincture (def 3). a fillet between two flutes of a column.

Origin of orle

1565-75; Middle French: border, edge Vulgar Latin *ōrulus, diminutive of Latin ōra border

Examples for orle

Yo me hubiera quedado a orle la misa, pero hoy es da de15 mucha fatiga para m.

orle contar sus conquistas era cosa de morirse de risa,25 porque hay Tenorios de Tenorios, y aqul fu de los ms originales.

The arms on the memorial to John Pierrepont are—A lion rampant within eight roses in orle.

Small charges are frequently disposed about the border of a Shield in orle, as in Nos. 86 and 132.

Thus the martlets in the shield of Erpingham, already described, may be called an orle of martlets or a border of martlets.

The sinister half is occupied by a demi-virgin issuing out of an orle of clouds.

Arranged after the manner of an orle, forming a border to a Shield, as in No. 86.

Paynel bore “Silver two bars sable with a border, or orle, of martlets gules.”

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

Erpingham bore “Vert a scocheon silver with an orle (or border) of silver martlets.”