debruised

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"A lion is debruised when a bend or other ordinary is placed over it."
"The lion of England and the lilies of France without the baton sinister, under which, according to the laws of heraldry, they were debruised in token of his illegitimate birth."
"Serpent, embowed, the head debruised, or surmounted of the tail; also blazoned, […]"

See debruise. Compare Old French debruisier (“to shatter, break”). Compare bruise.

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