[The earlier form of BORDER, F. bordure, OF. bordeure.]

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  1.  Her. ‘A Bearing that goes all round, and parallel to the boundary of the Escutcheon, in form of a hem, and always contains a fifth part of the Field in breadth.’ Porny, Elem. Her., 1787.

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1460.  Lybeaus Disc., 858. He bar the scheld of goules … Of gold was the bordure.

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1593.  Wyrley, Armorie, 86. Three rundels … In sable bordure deepely ingreled.

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1610.  Guillim, Heraldry, I. v. (1660), 30. This term Entoyre is proper to all bordures charged with dead things.

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1763.  Brit. Mag., IV. 527. Sable, an eagle displayed, ermine, within a bordure, argent.

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1864.  Boutell, Heraldry, Hist. & Pop., xiv. 163. The bordure of Holland is blazoned without any dimidiation.

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  2.  = BORDER. (An occasional variant.)

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1664.  Evelyn, Kal. Hort. (1729), 199. In such Bordures … plant neither Herbs nor Flowers. Ibid. (1693), De la Quint. Compl. Gard., Gloss., Bordures or Borders is a term likewise used for Herbs commonly planted in Borders.

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a. 1695.  Wood, Life (1848), 295, note. I have here printed my epistle with a bordure and picture in it.

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1830.  Tennyson, Poems, 85. In the bordure of her robe was writ Wisdom.

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