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tressure

noun /ˈtɹɛsjʊə(ɹ)/

  1. A narrow border near the edge of a shield or banner.

    The official blazon of the arms of Perth is "Gules, a Holy Lambe passant regardant staff and cross argent, with the banner of St. Andrew proper, all within a double tressure counter-flowered of the second": […].

Where it comes from

From Middle English tressour, from a mixture of Old French tressure and tresseor. By surface analysis, tress + -ure.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry tressure (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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