brisure

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English

Etymology

From French brisure, from briser (to break).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɹɪˈzjʊə(ɹ)/, /bɹɪˈʒʊə(ɹ)/

Noun

brisure (plural brisures)

  1. Any part of a rampart or parapet which deviates from the general direction.
  2. (heraldry) A mark of cadency or difference.
    • 1804, Alexander Nisbet, A system of heraldry ..., page 89:
      The baton is made now very short by the French, who call it baton peri, and is always a brisure, frequently made use of by the younger sons of France, of which I have treated in my marks of cadency, and shall do so again []
    • 1896, John Woodward, A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 172:
      But the bar (being a horizontal piece, a diminutive of the Fess), is not used like the French barre as a brisure for illegitimacy; a bar-sinister is an absurdity and impossibility.

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Anagrams

French

Etymology

From briser +‎ -ure.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bʁi.zyʁ/
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  • Rhymes: -yʁ

Noun

brisure f (plural brisures)

  1. chip (small broken piece of material)

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Italian

Noun

brisure f

  1. plural of brisura