emborder meaning (archaic): definition, etymology and quotations

emborder

verb

Etymology From em- + border.

Archaic To furnish or adorn with a border.

Among thick woven arborets and flours Emborder'd on each bank1667, 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:

Government, Heraldry, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Monarchy, Nobility, Politics Archaic To border with the same metal or fur, rather than one that contrasts.