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Definition of Bordures

Bordure
Bordure Bor"dure, n. [F. bordure. See Border, n.] (Her.) A border one fifth the width of the shield, surrounding the field. It is usually plain, but may be charged.

Meaning of Bordures from wikipedia

- coats, the bordure is not strictly held to the rule of tincture; for example, many cadets of the French royal house, for example, bore red bordures on a blue...
- ordinaries. Bordures and labels were used occasionally, though not doctrinally. Perhaps the most prominent German family to adopt a system of bordures was the...
- Flag of Portugal often referred as the "Flag of the Quinas"). The red bordure featuring golden castles (not towers, as some sources state) was added...
- Canadian and Scottish Public Registers have official records of fields or bordures divided 'per chief'. The earliest such record in the Scottish Public Register...
- illegitimacy in this way eventually gave way to the use of different kinds of bordures. Sir Walter Scott is credited with inventing the phrase bar sinister, which...
- lilies of France with the three lions of England, with the addition of a bordure azure with martlets or (that is, a blue border featuring golden martlets)...
- Short and Easy Introduction to Heraldry, London 1827, Part 2, Table 3 Bordures Counterchangings & Lines, fig. 7 "Hausgereut". Heraldry of the World. Retrieved...
- Battenberg. Escutcheon Within the Garter, Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Hesse with a bordure compony argent and gules; 2nd and 3rd, Battenberg; charged at the honour...
- walls. In Scotland, varied lines of partition are often used to modify a bordure (or sometimes another ordinary) to difference the arms of a cadet from...
- the Church. Trees are frequent charges in Latin arms. Charged bordures, including bordures inscribed with words, are seen often in Spain. Eastern European...