emborder
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]emborder (third-person singular simple present emborders, present participle embordering, simple past and past participle embordered)
- (archaic, transitive) To furnish or adorn with a border.
- 1667, 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:
- Among thick woven arborets and flours
Emborder'd on each bank
References
[edit]- “emborder”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.