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Chef's garnish
Answer for the clue "Chef's garnish ", 7 letters:
bordure
Word definitions for bordure in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bordure \Bor"dure\, n. [F. bordure. See Border , n.] (Her.) A border one fifth the width of the shield, surrounding the field. It is usually plain, but may be charged.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In heraldry , a bordure is a band of contrasting tincture forming a border around the edge of a shield, traditionally one-sixth as wide as the shield itself. It is sometimes reckoned as an ordinary and sometimes as a subordinary. A bordure encloses the ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context heraldiccharge English) A contrasting border around a shield.
Usage examples of bordure.
Kenneth was wearing a sumptuous cloak of fine black wool lined with sable, the edges gold-embroidered with a double bordure of flory-counterflory, and had a velvet cap well pulled down on his sandy hair.
Those shapes in the bordure were my workshop-patterns for the devils above.
Both wore fine Connaiti brigandines of leather and steel, Sicards partially covered by a surcoat quartered with his own arms and those of his wife, the MacArdry border cats on crimson, bordured or, and the sable dancing bear and crimson etoilles of Meara on chequey of silver and gold.