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Tress(o)ur, n.1 Also: tress(o)ure, treasure. [ME and e.m.E. tressour (a1310), tresour (c1420), tressure (c1425), OF tresseor, -ure; Tres(s n.] In heraldry: A tressure, a narrow band surrounding the shield at some distance from the bordure. See also Tres(s n. 3 and Tresett n. c1450-2 Howlat 588 (A).
In a feld of siluer … thre coddis … With dowble tressur about 1531 Bell. Boece I 34.
The kingis armis in quhilkis was ane scherand sword … crown and tressour 1533 Boece 351.
King Achay to the rede lioun armys of Scottis princis … ekit in circumference of the scheild ane doubill tressoure 1533 Boece 607b.
Thair armez beris the lioun with flouris deliceis and tressouris 1539–40 Reg. Great S. 463/2.
Unum duplex lie tressour auri in eorum lie scheild circa eorum arma 1577 A. Hay Nobility 26.
The armes of Scotland with the treasure 1630-1651 Gordon Geneal. Hist. xiv.
Thrie reid half moones (with a reid double tressur for border) 1658 R. Moray Lett. 328.
Not to misse the flower-de-luces on the tressure 1674 Kennedy Aberd. Ann. I 21.
Three towers, within a double tressure
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