Definition of Rustre

1. a pierced lozenge (heraldry) [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rustre

rustled
rustler
rustlers
rustles
rustless
rustlessness
rustlike
rustling
rustlingly
rustlings
rustly
rustproof
rustproofed
rustproofing
rustproofs
rustre (current term)
rustred
rustres
rusts
rustumite
rusty
rusty blackbird
rusty grackle
rusty nail
rusty rig
rusty sputum
rusty tinamou
rusty tinamous
rusty woodsia

Literary usage of Rustre

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. English Heraldry by Charles Boutell (1908)
"... Mascle and rustre, the Fusil, the Billet, the Gyron, and the Frette. The Canton, by the early Heralds commonly styled the " Quarter," sometimes has been ..."

2. English Heraldry: With Four Hundred and Fifty Illus. Drawn and Engraved on by Charles Boutell (1907)
"... Mascle and rustre, the Fusil, the Billet, the Gyron, and the Frette. The Canton, by the early Heralds commonly styled the " Quarter," sometimes has been ..."

3. English Heraldry by Charles Boutell, R. B. Utting (1875)
"... the Inescutcheon, the Orle, the Tressure, the Bordure, Planches, the Lozenge, Mascle and rustre, the Fusil, the Billet, the Gyron, and the Frette. ..."

4. Heraldry, Ancient and Modern: Including Boutell's Heraldry by Charles Boutell, S. T. Aveling (1890)
"The rustre (No. 77) differs from the mascle in that the perforation of the device is ... The rustre is sometimes improperly blazoned a mascle pierced round. ..."

5. A New Dictionary, English and French, and French and English ...by Louis Chambaud, Jean-Thomas Hérissant Des Carrières by Louis Chambaud, Jean-Thomas Hérissant Des Carrières (1815)
"... un homme £rr,$\iVr, wn paysan, un rustre i wie mahlte. »4. H is « short t!ii<k, fit ''hub, .... man] Un paysan, un rustre, ..."

6. An Etymological Dictionary of the French Language: Crowned by the French Academy by Auguste Brachet (1882)
"Its doublet is rustre, qv rustre, sm. a boor; O. Fr. rus/г, ... 51), becomes O. Fr. ruste, whence rustre by addition ol r, see Hist. Gram. p. 80. ..."

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