emborder

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From em- +‎ border.

Verb

emborder (third-person singular simple present emborders, present participle embordering, simple past and past participle embordered)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To furnish or adorn with a border.
    • 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
      Among thick woven arborets and flours
      Emborder'd on each bank
  2. (archaic, heraldry, transitive) To border with the same metal or fur, rather than one that contrasts.

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