Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A scale in early armor. See under rustred.
  • noun Hence In heraldry, a lozenge pierced with a circular opening, large in proportion to the whole surface, the field appearing through it. Compare mascle.

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Examples

  • Le rustre avoue ingénument que non, et ajoute qu'il serait bien content de la savoir.

    French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann

  • Un gros rustre qui était appuyé contre un pilier de l'église était le seul qui ne pleurât [1] pas.

    French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann

  • May the gods continue to make: dice-weir boxes superconfident low-level telepathic peccable language identical daydreamers dapperling Moadex re-do do’d denotating bike rustre mini cacophonious calmative worrywart, deck saga, novel sun scrogs unlikes a consortium of cliffs: Kenneth Goldsmith pride of place and joy to us here at hear right writing official counsel, dual reasoning: who deserves Pliny who’d answer their prayers if he could and

    “Name, a novel” by Toadex Hobogrammathon : Kenneth Goldsmith : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

  • Haultcastel de St. - Paterne, vous êtes un paltoquet et un rustre! ... "

    The Martian George Du Maurier 1865

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