Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In heraldry: A bearing, usually considered as a subordinary, like a border but not reaching the edge of the escutcheon, so that the field is seen outside of it as well as within.
- noun A band of small objects taking the form of an orle: as, an orle of mullets. It is more commonly blazoned in orle (which see, below).
- noun A circlet set upon a helmet, which supports the crest and is often used in modern heraldry without the helmet, furnishing the only support or base for the crest.
- noun The rim of a shield; especially, the metal rim of a shield composed of wood, osier, or the like, and visible as a projecting rim on its face.
- noun In architecture, same as
orlet .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Her.) A bearing, in the form of a fillet, round the shield, within, but at some distance from, the border.
- noun (Her.) The wreath, or chaplet, surmounting or encircling the helmet of a knight and bearing the crest.
- noun round the escutcheon, leaving the middle of the field vacant, or occupied by something else; -- said of bearings arranged on the shield in the form of an orle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun heraldry A
bordure which runs around the outline of ashield without touching the edge.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Though the libretto is not very carefully written, it is better than the average performances of this {177} kind, and with poetical intuition Schefsky has refrained from the temptation, to make it turn out well, as Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer has done in her play of L'orle, which is a weak counterpart of Auerbach's village-tragedy.
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This family bears: party per pale or and sable, an orle counterchanged and two lozenges counterchanged, with: “i, semper melius eris,” — a motto which, together with the two distaffs taken as supporters, proves the modesty of the burgher families in the days when the Orders held their allotted places in the State; and the naivete of our ancient customs by the pun on
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On looking in the windows orle is fairly astonished at the diversity of shapes that are exposed for sale.
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On looking in the windows orle is fairly astonished at the diversity of shapes that are exposed for sale.
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Azure, an orle of martlets or, on an inescutcheon arg. three bass gules.
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In his hand he bore that singular _abacus_, or staff of office, with which Templars are usually represented, having at the upper end a round plate, on which was engraved the cross of the Order, inscribed within a circle or orle, as heralds term it.
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In the midst thereof he findeth a couch right fair and rich and high, and at the foot of this couch was a chess-board right fair and rich, with an orle of gold all full of precious stones, and the pieces were of gold and silver and were not upon the board.
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The arms on the memorial to John Pierrepont are -- A lion rampant within eight roses in orle.
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The well-known Shield of the MORTIMERS supplies a good example, No. 131 (H. 3) -- _Barry of six or and az., an inescutcheon arg.; on a chief gold, gyroned of the second, two pallets of the same_: for DARCY -- _Arg., an inescutcheon sa., within an orle of roses gu.
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_Arg., within an orle of roses gu., a lion rampt.sa. _, for Sir R. PIER.OUND, both apparently founded on the shield of the Earl of
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