Noun : azure, an orle of bezants. From Dictionary.com.
Azure, an orle of martlets or, on an inescutcheon arg. three bass gules. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 59, December 14, 1850] Reference
On looking in the windows orle is fairly astonished at the diversity of shapes that are exposed for sale. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [A Start in Life] Reference
Arms. Sable, a trefoil slipt within an orle of muUeli, argent. From Wordnik.com. [Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical] Reference
Arms. Sable, a trefoil slipt within an orle of mullets, argent. From Wordnik.com. [Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical] Reference
Sable, a trefoil slipt, within an orle of eight Mullets, Argent. From Wordnik.com. [Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society] Reference
The arms on the memorial to John Pierrepont are -- A lion rampant within eight roses in orle. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 190, June 18, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Ivanhoe. A Romance] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Ivanhoe] Reference
In the midst thereof he findeth a couch right fair and rich and high, and at the foot of this couch was a chess-board right fair and rich, with an orle of gold all full of precious stones, and the pieces were of gold and silver and were not upon the board. From Wordnik.com. [The High History of the Holy Graal] Reference
"See! a saltire within an orle is the private water-mark of. From Wordnik.com. [The Cab of the Sleeping Horse] Reference
“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. From Wordnik.com. [Ivanhoe] Reference
He frowned at me, never orle to take a joke. From Wordnik.com. [Penalty]
Label or a Bordure but) semée over the field of a Shield, or charged upon an Ordinary, or disposed in orle. From Wordnik.com. [The Handbook to English Heraldry] Reference
Barry of ten, an orle of martlets -- Valence. From Wordnik.com. [The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See] Reference
Or, an escutcheon between eight martlets in orle. From Wordnik.com. [Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical] Reference
"there are great and valuable quantities of scrubbed beech and birch, with some holly, hazel, and orle, fit to be cut and disposed of, being. From Wordnik.com. [The Forest of Dean An Historical and Descriptive Account] Reference
7 to make Head againff Beauehatel; and lal Ml were forc'd to Retrait wjth a Lofs fa the more Grating,, that it was the firlHhey tat the Hands oTthe Eaglijh, and (which orle) to leave behind them an OiEcer Worth. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Campagnes 1548 and 1549: Being an Exact Account of the Martial Expeditions ...] Reference
These are the inescutcheon, orle, lozenge, fusil, and border (formerly bordure). From Wordnik.com. [Concordance A Terran Empire concordance] Reference
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