tressured

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English

Etymology

From tressure +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

Adjective

tressured (not comparable)

  1. (heraldry) Provided with or bound with a tressure; arranged in the form of a tressure.
    • 1914, John Horne Stevenson, Heraldry in Scotland, page 24:
      These instances, to say nothing of the tressured lion of the Scottish kings, are enough to show the complete acceptance of heraldry in Scotland at that time.
    • 1956, Sir Thomas Innes of Learney, Scots Heraldry: A Practical Handbook on the Historical Principles and Modern Application of the Art and Science, Genealogical Publishing Com, →ISBN, page 216:
      When at sunrise the tressured lion was hoisted before the Lord-Lieutenant's pavilion, it was greeted by a salute of trumpets, and such a salute it was, in 1645, that first warned Argyll that Montrose, the King's Lieutenant, []

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