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Definition of Tressures
1. tressure [n] - See also: tressure
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tressures
Literary usage of Tressures
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of the Coins of Great Britain and Ireland in the British Museum by Herbert Appold Grueber (1899)
"Cross moline, pierced at ends ; the tressures fleury. .1; '8. Wt. 21-6. This is
precisely as the last issue of Henry I. On some coins of this type Stephen ..."
2. English Heraldry: With Four Hundred and Fifty Illus. Drawn and Engraved on by Charles Boutell (1907)
"This, the double Tressure of Scotland, is a combination of two such single
Tressures as No. 136, and it is produced from them in the manner following :—From ..."
3. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... and favour of the Lorde, Liberally to spende our goods, tlic grounde of al
discorde. • [tressures mold And wretched ..."
4. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. by John Gibson Lockhart (1837)
"Fine ladies and gentlemen now talk indeed of donjons, keeps, tabards, scutcheons,
tressures, caps of maintenance, portcullises, wimples, and we know not ..."
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