emborder

English

Alternative forms

• imborder, imbordure

Etymology

From em- +‎ border.

Verb

emborder (third-person singular simple present emborders, present participle embordering, simple past and past participle embordered)

1. (archaic, transitive) To furnish or adorn with a border.
   • 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     Among thick woven arborets and flours
     Emborder'd on each bank

2. (archaic, heraldry, transitive) To border with the same metal or fur, rather than one that contrasts.

References

• “emborder”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.