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Definition of Debruise
1. to cross a coat of arms [v -BRUISED, -BRUISING, -BRUISES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Debruise
Literary usage of Debruise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"... [Pp. of debruise, r.] In Inr., surmounted or partly covered by one of the
ordinaries : said of an ordinary or other bearing, especially of a ..."
2. A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries by John Woodward (1896)
"... when not used to debruise other bearings, is no mark of illegitimacy; and its
use carries with it no trace of suspicion. In Germany the custom referred ..."
3. A Dictionary of the First Or Oldest Words in the English Language: From the by Herbert Coleridge (1862)
"LP p. 52 abs. = 'dead,' or 'in death.' 0. and N. 1630 Debonair, adj. RG. 167,
374 debruise, va RG. 410, 529, 537. ..."
4. The History of the Law of Prescription in England: Being the Yorke Prize by Thomas Arnold Herbert (1891)
"... for being in so great a quantity of land cannot defoul or debruise the grass
so, but that the hay may well be made thereof." Dickins v. Hampstead, Gibb. ..."
5. A History of the County of Westchester, from Its First Settlement to the by Robert Bolton (1848)
"D'or a un aigle de sable, ayant le A lance in pale with a flag its point in chief,
debruise, ..."
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