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Orle

//ɔːl// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A municipality of Croatia.
Noun
  1. 1
    A bordure that runs around the outline of a shield without touching the edge.

    "1819, 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. — Walter Scott, Ivanhoe"

  2. 2
    The wreath, or chaplet, surmounting or encircling the helmet of a knight and bearing the crest; a torse.
  3. 3
    A fillet under the ovolo of a capital.

Etymology

From Old French (also modern) orle, from orler (“to hem”), or from Vulgar Latin *orula, a diminutive of Latin ora (“edge”), probably from os, oris (“mouth”).

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