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n. A bordure which runs around the outline of a shield without touching the edge.

n. A bearing, in the form of a fillet, round the shield, within, but at some distance from, the border.

n. The wreath, or chaplet, surmounting or encircling the helmet of a knight and bearing the crest.

n. 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.

n. 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).

n. 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.

n. 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.

n. In architecture, same as orlet.

"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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