orle

Definitions

1. A bordure that runs around the outline of a shield without touching the edge.
2. A municipality of Croatia.
3. The wreath, or chaplet, surmounting or encircling the helmet of a knight and bearing the crest; a torse.
4. A fillet under the ovolo of a capital.

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Examples

“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”

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