tressure

/ˈtɹɛsjʊə(ɹ)/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.02 in modern English

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noun

"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": […]."

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

tressures (plural)

tressured

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How do you pronounce tressure?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈtɹɛsjʊə(ɹ)/.

What does tressure mean?

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

Where does tressure come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

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