Crossword-Solution: TRESSURE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tressure | n. | A kind of border similar to the orle, but of only half the breadth of the latter. |
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| Heraldic bearing. | 4 answers |
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Form of quartz with coloured bands
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Hint 2 anagram
TAGEA
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CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with TRESSURE (5)
The double tressure might you see, First by Achaius borne, The thistle and the fleur-de-lis, And gallant unicorn.
The _tressure_ is a border at some distance from the edge of the field, half the breadth of an orle: the tressure may be double or treble.
Andrew's Cross gules surtout, an escutcheon or, with a lion rampant gules within a double tressure of the same, surmounted by a king's crown as a crest.
The arms of Scotland exhibit an example of a double tressure flory and counter-flory, as exhibited in the shield on the title-page of this Manual.
CHAPTER VII THE GRAMMAR OF HERALDRY SECTION IV _The Subordinaries:-- The Canton or Quarter: The Inescutcheon: The Orle: The Tressure: The Bordure: Flanches: The Lozenge, Mascle, and Rustre: The Fusil: The Billet: The Gyron: The Frette-- The Roundles._ “The second in a line of stars.” --IDYLLS OF THE KING.